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Ancestors of John Kavanagh
Generation No. 1
1. John Kavanagh, born in Ireland; died in Ireland. He married (1) Marie
Ann Cluny in Ireland.
Notes for John Kavanagh:
From Tanguay:
Jean Cabanis married to Marie-Anne Blin,
Irelandaise
Marriage Notes for John Kavanagh and Marie Cluny:
They were married in Ireland- end of traceable Kavanagh.
Children of John Kavanagh and Marie Cluny are:
i. Jacques Cabana dit Cavanaugh1, born 1732 in Dublin, Ireland; died
April 1765 in Philadelphia, PA USA; married Catherine Gauthier February 04,
1760 in St-Laurent, I.O.2.
Notes for Jacques Cabana dit Cavanaugh:
YOUR FIRST ANCESTOR__ JAMES KAVANAGH : JACQUES CABANA
The originator of this family in this country came from Dublin city. It
was there he was born in 1742, of John Kavanagh and Mary Ann Cluny.
The city of Dublin is the capital of Ireland adn is beautifully situated on
Dublin Bay, at the mouth of the River Liffey, and today numbers about
360,000 inhabitants, the suburbs included.
About two hundred years ago, the population must have been considerably
less, and it is quite probable, were we to pursue the registers of the
different Catholic parishes, there we should find many traces of the family.
Traditions tells us that there were four children, two boys and two girls;
one of the boys became religious, the other, James, emigrated to Canada and
became your ancestor. James Kavanagh, shom we shall henceforth call Jaques
Cabana, emigrated to Canada between the years 1755 and 1760.
We can not find the exact date of his arrival in Canada. The first trace of
him is in his marriage contract, January 1760. He had probably then lived
in Canada for a few years at the date of his marriage in 1760; he was aged
18 years. So he would have left Ireland for Canada when he was fifteen or
sixteen years old.
In 1755 and 1760, Canada was exclusively a French Colony with very few
inhabitants of other different nationalities, except a few Irish Colonists
who settled here and married with the French Canadians. The first of these
who came over from Ireland, came because circumstances obliged them and
their example attracted their relatives and friends.
It appears that your ancestor, Jacques Cabana, came here with a
fellow-country man John Devine, who was much older than him It is this same
John Devine whose name appears later in the marraige contract of your
ancestor. He was one of the witnesses at that ceremony. John Devine
arrived in the country in 1750, for he was married to a Canadian girl,
Marie Roidoux, April 24, 1752.
MARRIAGE OF JACQUES CABANA
Jaques Cabana settled in the parish of St. Laurent in January 1760. St.
Laurent today is a small city almost bordering on the city of Montreal. In
1760 it was a small village situated about eight miles north west of
Montreal. Mount Royal separated these two cities.
Jacques Cabana was married in st Laurent Church, Feb.4 1760 to Catherine
Gauthier aged 17, also of St.Laurent.
Eight days previous, January 27, they had thier marriage contrat drawn up
and signed before the Notary Hodiesne. We shall give you a copy of this
contract, also a copy taken from the register kept in St. Laurent church
where the marriage was celebrated.
The marriage contract mentions that Jacques Cabana as a well as his wife,
lived in the part still called " Cote des Vertus". This road runs west to
east and lies between St.Laurent and the mountain about a half mile from
the village.
In this marriage contract, we read the first witness of Jacques Cabana, is
his fellow country man John Devine; Marie Robidoux whose name follows is
John Devine's wife; Marie Robidoux's family also belonged to St. Laurent.
John Cabana remained in St. Laurent but four years after his marriage;
during this period two children were born to him; Pierre born in 1761 and
Marie in 1762.
JACQUES CABANA SETTLES IN PHILEDELPHIA -- his death
It is well to call to mind a few historical events of Canadian History.
Canada was exclusively a French Colony till 1760, and what is today the
United States was then an English Colony. These two colonies were almost
continually at war. In 1760 England, with the help of her American
Colonies, took Canada; in 1763 a treaty of peace was signed and all of
North America claimed by the English. Montreal, St.Laurent and
Philedelphia were all, one as much as the other, under English Government.
Jacques Cabana left St. Laurent in the spring of 1764 and went to live in
Philadelphia. In the begining of February 1765, Jacques CAbana's wife gave
birth to her third child who was called JAmes, after his father. It is this
James who became your grandfather's father.
Scarcely two months had elapsed since the birth of his third child, when
Jacques Cabana at the age of 23 was taken suddenly from his young family;
and his young widow, Catherine Gauthier, found herslef in a ery
embarrassing situation as she was scarcely twenty-two years of age herself,
and could but with great difficulty speak English. While she was living in
St.Laurent, French was the only language spoken there at that early period,
and she could not have learned much English during the short time she had
been in Philadelphia. Moreover, she had to provide for her three young
children, the eldest being but five years old and the youngest two months.
Tradition states that young widow Cabana, remained in Philadelphia and New
York of the next two years, before she returned to live in St.Laurent,
where she was sure of the protection of her family and freinds.
On July 18, 1767, soon after her arrival at St.Laurent, we find a very
interesting entry made in the parish register, testifying that your great
grandfather was then baptized at the age of two years, five months and a
half. In Philedelphia and New York where the young widow had lived after
the birth of her son Jacques, there was no resident Catholic clergy.
The Baptism of Jacques Cabana reads as follows: ( Translated from French)
" The year one thousand seven hundred sixty-seven the eighteen day of July
was baptized, by me, the undersigned, Jacques, at two years five months and
a half, son of the late Jacques Cabana of Irish descent, and of Catherine
Gauthier his father and mother, Catholics, and married in the church. God-
fahter Henri Girouard, God-mother Marie Josephte Cousineau-Girouard who
signed with me the God fahter having declared he could not sign.
( Signed) Marie Josephte C.G. Beauzelle ptre.
As we learned previously Jacques Cabana left three children; a boy Pierre,
the eldest; a girl Mary, and a second son Jacques. In his youth Pierre,
the eldest made trips out to Western Canada, engaged in fur trade. There is
not a trace her ever married and it appears he never returned from the West.
Marie Catherine, the second child married at the age of 18. Her marriage
celebrated at the church of Notre Dame, Montreal, Canada, Nov. 13, 1780;
this shows us that at this date the widow Catherine Gauthier had left St.
Laurent, to live in the city of Montreal.
The third child James, the continuator of your line, your great,
grandfather, was adopted by one of his uncles, his mother's brother. When
he was old enough to work, he left for a trip to Western Canada with his
older brother, Pierre. He went as far as Rainy Lake , and Lake of the
Woods, as he was engaged in the fur trade. He earned much money during his
voyage, enough to buy a large farm in " La Grande Freniere," part of
St.Eustache parish.
Jacques Cabana was married in the church at St.Eustache, the 24th of
October 1796, age 31 to Miss Amable Rouleau a young girl of 18 years.
Notes for Catherine Gauthier:
Source:
1. Dictionnaire National des Canadiens Francais, 1608-1760, Institut Drouin
2. Dictionnaire généalogique de nos origines, Tome 1 1608- 1730, Denis
Beauregard.
3. Fichier Origine
4. Dictionnaire généalogique des familles du Quebec, Rene Jette
Genealogy of Oliver Cabana Jr. of Buffalo, NY researched by Joseph Drouin
of Montreal, Dec. 1928 ( Copied and typed by Sallie J. McQuaid/ retyped by
her daughter, Shannon J. Courtney 7/20/1999)
page #4
JACQUES CABANAS THREE CHILDREN
As we learned previously, Jacques Cabana, left three children; a boy,
Pierre, the eldest, a girl Mary, and a second son Jacques. In his youth
Pierre made trips out to Western Canada, engaged in the fur trade. There is
not a trace he ever married and it appears that he never returned from the
West.
Marie Catherine, the second child married at the age of 18. Her marriage
was celebrated in the church of Notre Dame, Montreal, Nov. 13, 1780; this
shows us that at this date the widow Catherine Gauthier had left St.
Laurent, to live in the city of Montreal.
Here we submit a copy of the extract, taken from the register of the church
of Notre Dame, of the marriage of Catherine Cabana, also translated from
French.
This day November 13, 1780, after publication of one ban of marriage, and
no impediments nor opposition being made, and owing to a dispensation of
the other two bans, granted by Rev. Etienne Montgolfier, Vicar General, of
his Lordship the Bishop of Quebec, and having read the other two certified
of publication, made respectively on e in the parish of St. Pierre du
Portage on the river of the Assumption, signed Petrimout, ptre. cure of the
said parish, and the other in the parish of St. Francis de Sales of the
Isle of Jesus, signed Marchand ptre, cure of the said parish. I , the
undersigned priest of the Montreal Seminary with pastoral faculties, having
received the verbal and mutual consent of the present Francois Charles
Leguerrier residing in the parish of St. Pierre du Portage on the
Assumption River, aged 23 years, son of William Leguerrier and of Marie
Gariepy his father and mother living in St. Francis de Sales, Parish of the
Isle of Jesus, of the first part, and of Marie Catherine Cabana aged 18
years, daughter of the late Jacques Cabana and Catherine Gauthier her
father and mother of this parish according to the rules and ceremonilas
observed by Holy Mother Church, in presence of Marie Louise, Mother Honore
and J. Bte Leguierrier, brothers; of Etienne, Rachal et Francois Cuvillon;
brothers-in -law; of Pierre, Pichette and Joseph Paquet, friends of the
married couple: of Catherine Gauthier, mother of Jacques Cabana; brother of
Joseph Lavarque, uncle; of Marguerite Sevat, aunt; of Jacques Poirier; of
Louis Paquette; friends of the bride and several other relatives and
friends, some of whom signed with the bridal couple; the others declared
they were unable to sign.
(Signed) Francois Charles Magloire Leguerrier
Marie Catherine Cabana, M.L. Gariepy
Honore Leguerrier Marie Joseph Normant
Jacques Poirier Louis Duquet Latour Frs. Derevry ptre.
The third child, James, the continuator of your line, your great, great
grandfather, was adopted by one of his uncles, his mothers brother. When
he was old enough to go to work, he left for a trip to Western Canada with
his older brother Pierre. He went as far as Rainy Lake , and Lake of the
Woods, and he was engaged in the fur trade. He earned much money during his
voyage, enough to but a large farm in " La Grande Freniere," part of St.
Eustache parish.
Jacques Cabana was married in the Church at St. Eustache, the 24th of
October aged 31 to Miss Amable Rouleau, a young girl of 18 years.
Marriage Notes for Jacques Cavanaugh and Catherine Gauthier:
Translation from Pierre Lacombe 4/18/1999
Jacques Cabanas, son of Jean Cabanas & Marianne Bluny, from Ireland and
Catherine Gauthier daughter of Joseph Gauthier & Marguerite Ceran
celebrated at St-Laurent (a suburb of Montreal) on Feb.4.1760
M Cabanas Gautier
L'an mil sept cens soixante le quatre Fevrier apres avoir publie trois bans
aux messes de paroisses entre jacques cabanas fils de jean cabanas et de
marianne Bluny d'irlande et marie catherine gautier filles de feu joseph
gautier et de marguerite Cerran de cette paroisse sans que ne soit trouve
aucun empeachement je soussigne apres avoir abtenu permission de ms le gran
vicaire et ai recu leur mutuel consentement de mariage dt leur ai donne la
benediction nuptial plus les ceremonies prescrites par la ste eglise en
presence de j. B. Couvret J M. Bourgeois, Louis decary Baptiste parent qui
n'ont scu signer.
Robert
Archives Nationales du Quebec # ZQ0008-0019/2 St-Laurent, Qc, CANADA
ii. Pierre Cavanaugh, born January 26, 1761 in St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada.
More About Pierre Cavanaugh:
Fact 1: traveled to West Canada and traded furs
iii. Marie Catherine Cavanaugh, born 1762; married Francois Charles
Magloire Leguerrier November 13, 1780 in Montreal, Quebec CA.
Endnotes
1. Tanguay Compliment, Jacques Cabanac (son of Jean Cabanac & Mary Blin)
married 4 Feb 1760 St-Laurent, Monteal to Cathrine Gauthier ( daughter of
Joseph Gauthier & Marguerite Seran). Mary Ann Blin is shown from Dublin,
Irlande. ( Hodiesne 27 Jan 1760).
2. Tanguay, Jacques Cabanis married 4 Feb 1760 St-Laurent, Montreal to
Marie-Catherine Gautier.