RELATIONSHIP: 3rd great-grandfather
John McQUAID 🇮🇪 –> Joseph McQUAID 🇨🇦 –> Mildred McQUAID 🇨🇦 –> Kenneth KANALLEY 🇺🇸 –> Patrick KANALLEY 🇺🇸 –> Craig KANALLEY 🇺🇸
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FATHER: William McQUAID
MOTHER: Mary O’NEILL
BORN: 1836 Co. Tyrone (possibly in Aghaloo or Dromore Parish)
RELIGION: Catholic
OCCUPATION: Ship Builder / Ship Carpenter
MARRIED: 18 Jul 1859 St. Mary’s Cathedral, Kingston, Frontenac, Canada West¹
WIFE: Mary KILLEEN, daughter of Patrick KILLEEN & Catherine HARTNEY
CHILDREN:
- Mary, born 1860 Kingston, Frontenac, ON, Canada, married Martin DELANEY
- William John, born 1862 Kingston, Frontenac, ON, Canada, married Ellen McMAHON
- Anne, born 1863 Kingston, Frontenac, ON, Canada, married James ROBINSON
- Catherine, born 1865 Kingston, Frontenac, ON, Canada (died young)
- Patrick, born 1866 Kingston, Frontenac, ON, Canada (died young)
- John, born 1868 Kingston, Frontenac, ON, Canada (died young)
- Bridget, born 1870 Kingston, Frontenac, ON, Canada
- Joseph Francis, born 1872 Kingston, Frontenac, ON, Canada, married Agnes SHORT
- Agnes, born 1874 Kingston, Frontenac, ON, Canada, married George GRATE
- Theresa Josephine, born 1876, Kingston, Frontenac, ON, Canada, married George MARCHAND
- Clara, born 1880 Kingston, Frontenac, ON, Canada, died young
INTERESTING NOTES: DNA evidence appears to suggest a connection to the McQUAID family of Dromore Parish in Co. Tyrone with links to nearby Kilskeery. William is a repeating family name in Kilskeery.
There is also a DNA link for John’s descendants with the Catherine O’NEILL and William CAMBRIDGE family of Aghaloo Parish, Co. Tyrone. His father William McQUAID appears to witness their marriage (his wife Mary O’NEILL was likely Catherine’s sister). The Catholic parish records are incomplete, and baptisms only begin in 1846, but a William McQUAID lived in Caledon, a townland in Aghlaoo Parish, per Tithe records.
Grandchildren of John claimed that Bishop Bernard John McQUAID, 1st bishop of Rochester, NY, is related; his family came from Dromore Parish in Co. Tyrone (some say Trillick & Tummery, same neighborhood). Some of John’s children went to Rochester, NY and they would visit with their cousin, the bishop.
John was a Ship Carpenter by trade. It is believed he learned ship building & designing while indentured on the “Clyde” as a young man, per his granddaughter Gertrude (MARCHAND) KUEBEL. This may have helped pay for his passage from Ireland to Canada. He worked for the Calvin Co. on Garden Island. It is said that he designed the first ship capable of shooting the Lachine Rapids in the St. Lawrence River, instead of using the canals, which made travel quicker. He built his own home on John Street in Kingston in the 1860s; this street is now known as Russell Street.
According to Maritime History of the Great Lakes, John is credited as a builder of a steamboat called the Ella Ross, formerly the Gipsey. William WEBSTER originally built it in Montreal, and John McQUAID rebuilt it in Kingston in 1880; the Ella Ross used to do trips weekly between Kingston and Montreal.
He retired from ship building in 1902 but continued working as a carpenter in the city until 1912.
DIED: 16 May 1919 Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, age 83 years old²
BURIED: May 1919 St. Mary’s Cemetery, Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada²
SOURCES
- Canada, Ontario, Frontenac, Kingston Roman Catholic Church Records, St. Mary’s Cathedral, 1816-1931, Catholic Church Parish registers, St. Mary’s, Kingston
- Find A Grave, St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Cemetery, Kingston, Ontario, Canada – John McQuaid Memorial Page
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PARENTS:
William McQUAID *c1810 Co. Tyrone IRE 🇮🇪 +1856 Kingston ON 🇨🇦
Mary O’NEILL *c1811 Co. Tyrone IRE 🇮🇪 +1877 Kingston ON 🇨🇦
GRANDPARENT:
John McQUAID *c1775 Co. Tyrone IRE 🇮🇪
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