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Obit's in Queen's co.

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Meacham's Atlas of 1880

Lots 35, 36 and 37 South, most of 48

1861 census of Lot 37 Dramore and Dawson's Grove

Comparison of the 1861 cenus with various maps

Lakes' map 1861

Donagh, Lot 35 and part of Lot 36

Lakes' map 1861

Parts of Lots 35, 36, 37 and 48

Gif of 1861 census of Johnson's River, Lot 35 South

Covers all of Johnson's River including Donagh

Page 37 of Charlottetown's 1848 census

Spelling is my best guess

Family Histories

From Cavan, Monaghan, Meath to PEI

Lake's Map

Donagh, ca 1861

Meacham's 1880 Map

Shows Lots 35 & 36 South of Hillsboro River

Date index of "Genealogy Notes of PEI"

1785 to 1847

Date index of "Genealogy Notes of PEI"

1848-1864

Date index of "Genealogy Notes of PEI"

1865 to 1881

Date index of "Genealogy Notes of PEI"

1882 to 1945

Odd files

Files grouped by name rather than dates

Parish Register of St. Patrick's, Ft. Augustus

Covers Lots 35, 36, 37, 48

1856 map of Glanaladale

Appears to be lot 35 North only

Genealogy notes of Hazel Matkovcik

Covers lots 34, 35, 36, 37, 48

Johnson's River and Donagh

Map after 1861 before 1880

Family lore has it that some time in the winter of 1841, John Beagan, a ships carpenter from Newfoundland found himself iced in on the Hillsboro River. Unable to return home he spent the winter with nearby relatives and the following spring sent for his family and settled himself and his children in the new community of Donagh.

Donagh, Lot 35, was settled in 1839 by Owen and Catherine Trainor from Donagh, Co. Monaghan who a few years later were to become my gg-grandparents as thier daughter Ann married one of John Beagan's sons and my g-grandfather, Owen Beagan. John's other children married into McKenna, McGuire, Carr, McAvinnea, McDonnell, Mullen, and McCarthy families, all from the larger area known as Ft. Augustus.

Meanwhile in the neighboring settlement of Mermaid, Martin Power and his family set up their farm on the border of Lot 35 and 48. Martin was to become another of my gg-grandfathers when his granddaughter, Catherine Power, Married Owen's son, John Thomas Beagan. Martins other children and grandchildren married into Keefe, Duncan, McCarthy and Morrissey families.

My grandparents, John Thomas Beagan and Catherine Power set up a household in Donagh and in 1912 their youngest son Elmer John Beagan was born and in a few years the family had moved down the road to Johnson's River where Catherine taught school and John Thomas became a mix farmer. John Thomas became a victim of the 1918 flu and Catherine died four years later of a heart attack while carring in the days milk from the barn. My father, 10 years old at the time, found her lying face down in the snow and raced to the kitchen to tell his sister Evelyn who was preparing breakfast for the family, that "Mom was dead in the snow". Evelyn promptly slapped him good and warned never to fool around with talk like that.

After two years of shifting around with different reatives and living with his older brother Everett, Elmer was sent to the Boston States to live with his mother's sister, Annie McCarthy. Elmer went on to have a family and nine children of his own and now lives the good life in Port Orange , Fla.

This effort is dedicated to my father, Elmer John Beagan

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