RELATIONSHIP: Great-grandfather
Wallace KANALLEY 🇺🇸 –> Kenneth KANALLEY 🇺🇸 –> Patrick KANALLEY 🇺🇸 –> Craig KANALLEY 🇺🇸
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FATHER: James KANALLEY
MOTHER: Mary WALLACE
BORN: 5 Jan 1902 Cleveland, Cuyahoga, OH, USA1
RELIGION: Catholic
OCCUPATIONS: Steeplejack, Sailor
MARRIED: 3 Nov 1930 St. Joseph RC Cathedral, Buffalo, Erie, NY, USA2
WIFE: Mildred McQUAID, daughter of Joseph McQUAID & Agnes SHORT
INTERESTING NOTES: While he was born in Cleveland, Ohio, he grew up in Cobourg, Ontario where his parents were born. The story goes that his maternal grandfather didn’t want them to get married, so they ran away to the United States and married anyway. Inspired by this, I did extensive research and published a book about this family.
He immigrated to the United States in the 1920s, spending some time in Chicago before settling in Buffalo, New York. He married in 1930 and moved his family to Lockport in Niagara County in the 1950s.
As part of his work as a steeplejack, he was once stuck on a chimney for many hours in an incident that received national news attention.
He was also known as “Wally”.
DIED: 26 Dec 1977 Buffalo, Erie, NY, USA, age 75 years old3
BURIED: Dec 1977 Cold Springs Cemetery, Lockport, Niagara, NY, USA3
SOURCES
- United States, Ohio, Cuyahoga, Cleveland – Official Birth Certificate
- United States, New York, Erie, Buffalo Roman Catholic Church Records, St. Joseph Cathedral
- Find A Grave, Cold Springs Cemetery, Lockport, Niagara, NY, USA – Wallace Kanalley Memorial Page
ANCESTORS [back to top]
PARENTS:
James KANALLEY *1868 Cobourg ON 🇨🇦 +1923 Cobourg ON 🇨🇦
Mary Ann WALLACE *1878 Cobourg ON 🇨🇦 +1940 Buffalo NY 🇺🇸
GRANDPARENTS:
Thomas KENNELLY *c1820 Co Limerick IRE 🇮🇪 +1899 Cobourg ON 🇨🇦
Rose FLYNN *c1831 IRE 🇮🇪 +1902 Cobourg ON 🇨🇦
Andrew Martin WALLACE *1856 St. Catharines ON 🇨🇦 +1916 Brainerd MN 🇺🇸
Catherine Agnes BULGER *1856 Cobourg ON 🇨🇦 +1913 Brainerd MN 🇺🇸
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