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Lawrence McGuire, born in 1808, emigrated to Quebec, Canada, married there in 1833 and has descendants.

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Family records state that Lawrence McGuire, born in 1808, was a waterboy in the English army in the battle against Napoleon at Waterloo, then he emigrated to Canada. He married Anne McAvoy, who came from St. Roche-en-ville in Quebec, in Notre Dame Basilica in Quebec City on 7 May 1833. They are parents of five children: James, Patrick, Mary, Anne, John, and Lawrence James McGuire. The father, Lawrence McGuire died in Quebec City according to the records of St. Sauveur Parish, on 12 March 1894 and he is buried in St. Sauveur Cemetery (next to St. Charles Cemetery). His wife Anne died 7 January 1881 according to the parish records and she also is buried in St. Sauveur Cemetery in Quebec City.

I am descended from Lawrence James McGuire (born 25 January 1848) who married Theresa McCaffrey (born 7 November 1853 in St. Sylvestre, Lotbiniere, Quebec) on 25 January 1882 in St. Anne Parish in Montreal, Quebec. Theresa died 17 August 1894 in St. Sylvestre. I believe the McCaffrey family settled in St. Sylvestre, Lotbiniere, Quebec in the 1820s. There were two farms there, adjacent to one another, that are still operated today by a descendant of one of Theresa McCaffrey's siblings.

I believe that the family of Lawrence McGuire in Ireland was Protestant, that he later became a Roman Catholic in May 1884, two years after his marriage to Anne McAvoy.

I am the great grandson of Theresa McCaffrey and Lawrence James McGuire. Two of their daughters emigrated to NYC, where they studied at Bellevue Hospital's School of Nursing in the early 1900s, and remained in the greater New York City area (Westchester County and New York County). My grandmother married in 1922, and later after her husband Dr. Matthew Francis Carney's death in 1937, moved to Newfields, Rockingham County, New Hampshire for most of the rest of her life.

I am seeking data about the McGuire family in Ireland, have no emigration data, nor church data in Ireland, and would welcome informed suggestions. Thank you.

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Owen Maguire (McGuire), born abt 1874, a farmer, and son of John Maguire, married Alice Cassidy, daughter of John Cassidy and Elizabeth Timmons of Eshbralley, on 30 Jan 1896 in the R. C. Chapel in Maguiresbridge, Aghalurcher Parish, Co. Fermanagh. Their first child, Anne, was born in Dec 1896 in Annagh, County Cavan. They had a total of 6 children, the first four being daughters, the two youngest being sons, born between 1896 and 1909, all in County Cavan.  Owen died shortly before his last son was born. At the time of their marriage, he listed his address as Drumalee, Belturbet, County Cavan. The Maguires of Fermanagh were the historic Lords of Fermanagh from the Middle Ages up till the flight of the Earls, and the Cassidys (from whom we descend) served as their physicians. I'm pretty sure the family was traditionally Catholic. I haven't done a great deal of research on this line as it is a collateral line to mine, but the family is on the 1901 census in Grilly, Corporation Lands, County Cavan.

 

I hope this is at least a little helpful to you.

 

What reallly caught my eye about your post was the mention of Annie McAvoy...my brick wall is Elizabeth "Lizzie" McAvoy who supposedly married Samuel Park, Parks or Parkes. I know they were both from the north of Ireland, but not precisely where. Their son, Edward, born bet. 1856-1863, immigrated to New York City and was a tuberculosis patient in Bellevue at the time of the 1900 US Federal census.

 

Does your McAvoy family have any Eliza's, Elizabeth or Lizzie's in their naming tradition?

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I have done no research on the McAvoy family, but have the father of Anne is Patrick McAvoy and the mother is Mary Phelan. I know that Anne McAvoy married Lawrence McGuire on 7 May 1833 in Notre Dame Basilica in Quebec City. The McGuire family lived in Quebec City.

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