The Sullivan Family

THE SULLIVAN FAMILY “Sullivan”, and its variant “O’Sullivan”, is the third most common surname in Ireland, an anglicized form of the more ancient Irish name Súildhubhán. In fact, it is a nickname with “Súil” being the Irish word for “eye” and “dubh” meaning “black”. It could be, therefore, that Súildhubhán was descriptive of the early black-eyed Sullivans, although the scholars are divided about this derivation. It could also be that the name is in fact O'Súilleabhain which means “eagle-eyed”. They were from earliest time an important and powerful family from the province of Munster. Their homes were originally in Tipperary, but they were forced from their lands by the invading Anglo-Normans in the year 1193, and branched out towards Cork and Kerry. Soon afterwards, the family divided in two: O'Sullivan Mor (Mor indicating larger or greater) in south Kerry and O'Sullivan Beare in west Cork. The Anglo-Normans continued to harass the family, so they allied themselves with the McCarthys and the O'Donahues. Together they defeated the invaders in 1261 at the Battle of Caisglin, just north of Kenmare. After this, the boundaries between the Anglo-Normans of north Kerry (the FitzGeralds) and the three Gaelic families of south Kerry and west Cork were established and remained in force until the sixteenth century. Not surprisingly, the native Irish and the AngloNormans eventually intermarried and became military allies against Henry VIII at the time of the Reformation. They continued in battle against the English intermittently throughout the reign of Elizabeth I culminating in the humiliating Battle of Kinsale of 1601. Indeed, the last rebel stronghold to withstand the English forces was Dunboy Castle, the principal fortress of the O'Sullivan Beare. The Sullivan family motto is Lamh foisteanach abú, which translated from the Irish means, “The steady hand to victory”.

GENERATION ONE 1.

PATRICK SULLIVAN (ca. 1800 - ?) and MARY McINERNEY

Owing to the dearth of Irish records, very little is recorded concerning the origins of our branch of the Sullivan family in Ireland itself. It may be definitely asserted, however, that the Sullivans came from the village of Doonbeg which is situated on the Bay of Dunmore in the parish of Killard on County Clare’s west coast. Doonbeg is now the site of one of the most important golf courses in Ireland. Patrick, our earliest known Sullivan ancestor, married Mary McInerney of the parish of Killard, near Doonbeg. Mary McInerney was the daughter of Michael McInerney (1757-11 Nov. 1818) of Doonbeg and Hannah Roche of the village of Caherlean, Killard Parish, County Clare. Michael McInerney and Hannah Roche were married in 1790, likely in Killard.

Besides Mary, they had six other children - Hannah (who married Patrick Nealon of Killard), Bridget (who married James Chambers of Caherfeenick), Michael (who married Hannah Moss), Patrick, Thomas, and Martin. In a book written by Samuel Lewis in 1837 entitled County Clare: A History and Topography, Doonbeg (or Dunbeg) was described as being inhabited by some

two-hundred and thirteen souls. An ancient castle built in the town was the stronghold of the O’Brien family.

The reason for the emigration of the Sullivans and McInerneys from Ireland, which likely occurred in 1846 or 1847, was the famine which afflicted that country throughout the middle of that sad decade. Between 1845 and 1851, about one million Irish died from starvation and disease. Another one million immigrated to the New World, many of them dying in the holds of the so-called “coffin ships”, or in the squalid compounds established on Canadian and American shores to “welcome” them. The famine ought not to have occurred in a country as fertile as Ireland, but poor land management by the British ensured disaster. As The Economist reports: The British, by force and cajolery, had, during the previous two centuries, taken the lands of the native Irish and set up a series of military “plantations”, turning owners into tenants. While English landowners extracted rent, the soldiers were often rewarded with small holdings. Rather than resist English rule, the Irish generally came to accept their lot, which amounted to little more than subsistence tenant farming; barely a finger was raised in rebellion between 1803 and 1848. When 800,000 hectares of potatoes began to rot in 1845, people died in droves. Over-population and reliance on one crop made things worse.1 County Clare, the home county of our branch of the Sullivan family, was particularly devastated.

Even before the famine hit, and certainly since the late 1820s, the west coast of Ireland had experienced periodic grain shortages, and consequently a scarcity of food. Escaping the ruinous situation at home, three brothers – James, Michael, and Luke Sullivan – came to Canada, but whether or not they came with their parents is not entirely certain. In 1847 alone some 38,000 Irish famine refugees disembarked at Toronto having paid the £5, 22 shilling fare from Ireland to the city. In the wake of the famine, the majority of these destitute immigrants had their passages paid by their Irish landlords who were eager to empty their unproductive estates of their human occupants in order to repopulate them with more profitable grazing animals, especially cows and sheep.2 Unhappily, though they may have arrived in this country debt free, their overwhelming poverty only increased with the refusal by the majority of Canadian settlers to offer work to these poorest of the poor.

The record of those interred in Michael Sullivan’s grave in St Michael’s Cemetery, Toronto, provides some tantalizing clues about the identities of these first Sullivan immigrants. Several of Mary McInerney’s brothers are also believed to have emigrated to Canada, among them Patrick and Thomas. Martin McInerney, their youngest brother, married Susan Corry in Doonbeg and after having had several children in Ireland, emigrated to Canada. It is known that he died in 1847, however, on one of the fever ships that had docked just outside of Quebec City. He is believed to be buried on Grosse Ile, Quebec.

Patrick Sullivan and Mary McInerney’s known children were:

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Reported in The Globe and Mail (Wednesday, June 28, 1995), p. A9.

M. McGowan, Michael Power : The Struggle to build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier (Montreal & Kingston : McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005), p. 247-248.

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2. JAMES SULLIVAN 3. MICHAEL SULLIVAN 4. LUKE SULLIVAN

Interior of a ship’s hold, typical of those on which the Irish immigrated to Canada during the Famine.

GENERATION TWO

The Offspring of Patrick Sullivan & Mary McInerney 2.

JAMES SULLIVAN (1817-1888).

James was born in Doonbeg, County Clare, Ireland in 1817, the son of Patrick Sullivan and Mary McInerney. He married Eliza Ahern of County Carlow, Ireland (1823-1883) on 23 September 1848. In the Register of Marriage Banns for St Paul’s Catholic Church, Toronto for that year the following entry may be found, very close to the announcement of his brother Michael’s wedding: There is a promise of marriage between James Sullivan , son of Patrick Sullivan and Mary McInerney, parish of Dunbeg, County Clare on the one part and Eliza Ahern, daughter of John Ahern and Mary Doyle, parish of Hacket’s Town, County Carlow, Ireland. First and last publication. Dom. XIII post Pent.3 After their marriage, James and Eliza first lived at 83 York Street in the city’s west end. By 1859 they had moved to 38 Duchess Street, near Sherbourne and King Streets. Their last known residence in Toronto was at 90 Caroline. Some time after 1868 James and his family moved to the town of Owen Sound in Grey County where he continued to work as a shoemaker.4 James and Eliza had at least four children: 5.

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MICHAEL SULLIVAN JOHN SULLIVAN FRANCIS SULLIVAN MARGARET SULLIVAN (Sister M. FRANCIS, c.s.j.)

James died suddenly in Owen Sound on October 19, 1888 after an apoplectic seizure.5

3.

MICHAEL SULLIVAN (ca. 1824-1893)

As recorded in his marriage banns, Michael was born in Doonbeg, County Clare, Ireland about 1824, the son of Patrick Sullivan and Mary McInerney. Little of his early life is known, save that he came to this country at about the age of twenty. Before his marriage he worked as a lathe operator or “turner” living on Crookshank’s Lane in St Patrick’s Ward6. He married Bridget Marren in old St Paul’s Catholic Church, Power Street, Toronto on October 10, 1848.

The marriage was solemnized by Fr J.J. Hay, with John Lavery and Catherine Leary standing as witnesses. Their banns, proclaimed several weeks before that event, are the only known source

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In 1848, the thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost occurred on September 17. The marriage, therefore, would have been celebrated in St Paul’s Church on September 23 of that year.

4 Census Returns for Owen Sound, Grey North, Ontario, 1881, C-13261, Dist. 156, subdist. A, division 2, p. 26, household #116.

5 Death Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 935, reel 50, #6071.

6 City of Toronto Directory, 1846-1847.

identifying the actual town and county from which our ancestors came before arriving on these shores.7

Marriage Banns for Michael Sullivan and Bridget Marren, St Paul's Church Toronto, 1848.

Michael’s wife, Bridget Marren, was from the village of Magheracloone, County Monaghan in the northern part of Ireland. According to the 1901 census of Canada she was born there on April 10, 1831,8 the daughter of Andrew Marren and his wife Sarah McCabe. Later records, however, such as the Registers of the House of Providence, point towards her birth in 1828. She declared that she left Ireland in 1844, in the very middle of the famine crisis.9 Family tradition adds that she emigrated in the company of her family, including a brother Peter and possibly another named John, but that one or both parents were lost during the Atlantic crossing, not an unusual circumstance at the time. Bridget’s granddaughter, Clementina Whiteside Champion, who actually knew her grandmother, recalled Bridget saying that she was taken care of by a family named Gallagher on the journey, and that she stayed with them upon arriving in this country, though not for a long period. Family lore also claims that at the time of her marriage she was but fourteen years of age. The provincial registration of her death (a collection of records that are notoriously unreliable for providing accurate birth dates) states, however, that she was born in 1831 making her seventeen at the time of marriage. If the House of Providence records are correct, she was actually sixteen when she emigrated and twenty when she married.

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Parish Registers of St Paul's Catholic Church, Toronto, Ontario.

Census Returns for the Town of Cobourg, Northumberland County, Ontario, 1901, Mfm T-6486, Dist. 96, b-7, p. 7.

9 Ibid.

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The coast at Doonbeg, Ireland

Michael Sullivan & Bridget Marren, ca. 1875.

Bridget Marren Sullivan (1831-1908)

Whatever their respective ages, she and her husband lived at numerous different addresses, mostly in the old St David’s Ward, over the course of their married life in the old downtown area of Toronto. Indeed, their lifestyle could be described as nothing less than peripatetic.

Immediately after their wedding they remained on the estates that belonged to the Honourable George Crookshank where initially Michael had the care of four horses and six cows.10 In 1849 the couple moved to 163 King Street East, and their wanderings around the east end of the city continued for the next fifty years. In 1855 they moved to 29 Duchess Street; then to 36 Duchess in 1859, immediately next door to Michael’s brother, James. The next year found them at 94 Duchess, living in a one-storey wooden frame house for which they paid an annual rent of $36.00. By 1865 they had moved again, with their six children to 25 Duchess. Between 1866

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City of Toronto Assessment Rolls (1848), St Patrick’s Ward, p. 61, #1264.

and 1870 they lived at 23 Duchess Street; in 1874 at 83 Richmond Street East; in 1876 at 79 Sherbourne Street; and then from 1880 until 1888 at 28 Duchess Street. 11

Duchess Street, Toronto, as it appeared at the turn of the twentieth century.

Why did the family move so frequently during these years? There is no clear answer to that question, but a clue may be found in the assessment rolls for St David’s Ward where they lived.

Never during all of their years living in Toronto’s east end did the Sullivans own their own home; they were always renters. In 1871 their two-storey frame house at 23 Duchess Street (owned by an Anglican clergyman named Richard Harrison) was valued at $612.00. The house (which was part of a series of workers’ row houses) was twelve feet wide by twenty-seven feet long on a deep lot that ran ninety feet away from the road. Eight people lived in that house on the wages of three shoemakers – Michael’s, and his sons Patrick and Michael. As rents increased, the Sullivans found themselves constantly on the move. In the case of this house, they had forty-four days notice to vacate the premises to find their next lodgings. The choice to move was likely not often theirs. The houses on Duchess (which were destroyed in the 1960s to make way for the Gardiner Expressway) were described in late nineteenth century newspapers as 11

All addresses are taken either from Chewett’s or Might’s city directories for the given year.

tenements. According to contemporary accounts the street appeared to experience more than its fair share of brawls, beatings, and public disturbances. Not surprisingly, the Sullivans were not immune from such violence. In 1898, for example, their grandsons Michael and William, sons of Michael Sullivan and Alexandrina McDonald, residents of 64 Duchess Street were arrested for break and entry.12 Michael Sullivan died on September 30, 1893, the cause of death recorded as ‘paralysis’.13 His widow, Bridget, stayed a few more years at two different addresses on Duchess Street before leaving the city and county of York altogether in 1898, with her daughter Annie Sullivan Lafferty (who was herself widowed about 1900), and her younger sons John and James Sullivan.

They moved to Cobourg, Ontario where they remained until 1903. On September 22 of that year, Bridget returned to Toronto and took up residence in the House of Providence where she died on February 18, 1908 after what was described as “a general debility of two months”.14 As with her birth, there is some discrepancy surrounding her date of death. The Sisters’ register at the House of Providence claims, in opposition to the provincial records, that she died on February 21 after three years, eleven months residency. What is certain is that on Tuesday, February 26 at nine o’clock in the morning, a low Requiem Mass was celebrated for her in St Michael’s Cathedral, and her remains were laid to rest with her husband Michael in St Michael’s Cemetery.15 St Michael’s is a ten-acre graveyard now hidden behind the buildings constructed at the corner of Yonge Street and St Clair Avenue in north Toronto. Opened in 1855, it is the last resting place for all of the Irish Catholic pioneers of the city of Toronto. Michael and Bridget’s grave is unmarked, except for a stone commemorating their daughter Emma Sullivan Champion. As previously noted, several others are buried in the same plot. With Michael and Bridget are their sons Patrick and Peter, and Michael’s brother Luke, together with two persons whose relationship with the family remains unclear. One is Mary Sullivan who died in 1896, and the other is J. Fitzmorris who died in August 1901.16 Three Mary Sullivans died in Toronto in 1896; two were infants and one was a seventy-two year old woman. It is likely, however, that this was the infant daughter of Michael Sullivan (Michael and Bridget’s son) and his wife Elizabeth McDonald. No J. Fitzmorris appears in the provincial register of death for that year.

Michael and Bridget Sullivan had eleven children, all but one of whom survived infancy and grew to adulthood: 9. PATRICK JOHN SULLIVAN 10. LUKE J. SULLIVAN 11. MICHAEL SULLIVAN “A citizen saw some boys break into the rear of S.T. Britten's establishment at 48 Lombard Street, yesterday, and telephoned police headquarters. Policeman Wallace went to the place and caught Michael Sullivan and William Sullivan of 64 Duchess Street ...” The Globe, 21 Nov. 1898.

13 Deaths Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 935 R. 70. reg. #023617.

14 Deaths Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 935, R. 133. reg. # 001740.

15 House of Providence Registers of Inmates, Archives of the Sisters of St Joseph, Toronto; Rosar-Morrison Funeral Home records, Toronto, Ontario, 1869-1923 (Toronto : Ontario Genealogical Society, 2000). The bill for her funeral was sent to her son, James, who was living at 34 Duchess Street.

16 Records of burial, St Michael’s Cemetery Toronto (Mount Hope Cemetery Offices).

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MARY SULLIVAN PETER SULLIVAN JOHN SULLIVAN SARAH SULLIVAN ANNE SULLIVAN JOHN SULLIVAN EMMA MARY EVELYN SULLIVAN JAMES JOSEPH ALOYSIUS SULLIVAN

LUKE SULLIVAN (1825-1900)

Luke Sullivan, the son of Patrick Sullivan and Mary McInerney, was born in Doonbeg, County Clare, Ireland in 1825. His early years in Toronto were spent working as a boot and shoemaker with his brother Michael. The 1853 assessment rolls for Toronto indicate that their small business, which operated on north side of King Street East in the old St David’s Ward was worth ₤9 that year.17 Luke never married and never owned his own home. He is consistently listed in the city directories as a boarder or lodger his whole life. According to the 1861 census, he was living with his brother Michael’s family. By 1880, however, he had struck out on his own, both domestically and professionally, and he was renting a room at 154 King Street East, across the street from the St Lawrence Hall. A couple of years later he had moved two residences down the block to the Clyde Hotel. From 1885 to 1886, he conducted a small cobbler’s business at 40 Jarvis Street (at the corner of King and Jarvis) together with another pair of shoemakers, M. Derham and J.S. McGregor, but by 1888, Luke had left the entrepreneurial path and was working for Cooper & Smith Boot and Shoe Manufacturers at 36-40 Front Street West. In 1890 he was in the employ of Orr, Harvey & Co., manufacturers and wholesale dealers in boots and shoes which operated out of 59-61 Front Street (just east of what is now the Union Station). In his sixtyeighth year, Luke finally retired from shoemaking and became a porter in the Commercial Hotel at 54 Jarvis Street, where he was also a boarder. In 1895, he moved into the home of Bridget Sullivan, his widowed sister-in-law, who had moved to 63 Duchess Street after the death of her husband Michael. Luke was still working as a porter in 1896, but now at the Carlton Hotel at 153 Yonge Street near Richmond Street. Upon the recommendation of Father Francis Rohleder of St Michael’s Cathedral, Luke was admitted to the House of Providence, operated by the Sisters of St Joseph, on November 30, 1897.18 After a little less than three years residence there, he died on November 6, 1900 at the age of seventy-five, after suffering from paralysis for about a year.19 The Sisters’ register adds that he had been subject to senile decay. He was buried at nine o’clock on the morning of Thursday, November 8 with his brother Michael in St Michael’s Cemetery. The funeral expenses were paid by his sister-in-law Bridget Sullivan.20

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City of Toronto Archives, City of Toronto Tax Assessment Rolls, Reference: Fonds 200, Series 612, St. David's Ward, 1853, Pg: 3, Sequence Number: 53.

18 House of Providence Registers of Inmates, Archives of the Sisters of St Joseph, Toronto.

19 Death Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 935, reel 95, #4094.

20 Rosar-Morrison Funeral Home records, Toronto, Ontario, 1869-1923 (Toronto : Ontario Genealogical Society, 2000), #4749.

House of Providence, Power Street, Toronto, ca. 1890.

GENERATION THREE

The Offspring of James Sullivan and Eliza Ahern 5.

MICHAEL SULLIVAN (1849- )

Michael Sullivan, the eldest son of James Sullivan and Eliza Ahern, was born in Toronto, Canada West in 1849.

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FRANCIS SULLIVAN (1863- )

Francis (Frank) Sullivan, the son of James Sullivan and Eliza Ahern, was born in Toronto, Canada West in 1863. According to the 1881 census he was a store clerk by the age of eighteen.

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MARGARET (Sister M. FRANCIS) SULLIVAN (1868-1947)

Margaret Sullivan, the only daughter of James Sullivan and Eliza Ahern, was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1868.21 Margaret moved to Owen Sound, Ontario with her family shortly after her birth but returned to the city of her birth in her twenty-first year when, in December of 1889 at the age of twenty-one, she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph. She received the sacred habit in 1890 and took the religious name, Sister M. Francis Sullivan. She made her final profession on August 15, 1892 (the feast of the Assumption). “For almost forty years she spent herself in the hidden but fruitful labours of the class-room in the parochial school of Toronto and other towns of the Archdiocese.”22 After retirement, she moved to the Congregation’s Motherhouse on Breadalbane Street “following with unfailing regularity the routine of a large religious community, and cheerfully performing such duties as her health permitted.” She died at the Breadalbane Street convent on January 16, 1947 after a final illness that lasted only two days, in the fifty-eighth year of her religious life. Her obituary notice, as issued by the Sisters described hers as a “life of quiet and unostentatious devotion to the service of God. Such a life of self-effacement presents few incidents for the biographer’s pen, but is none the less rich in achievement and in merit for souls.” A Solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated for her in the St Joseph’s Convent Chapel by the Reverend W. Roach, C.S.B., assisted by the Reverend J. Conway, C.S.B. as deacon and the Reverend S. Moran, C.S.B. as subdeacon. Assisting in the Sanctuary were the Very Reverend Dr Bondy, C.S.B., Superior of St Michael’s College, the Reverend F. Pennylegion, the Reverend D.S. Forestell, C.S.B., P.P., the Reverend B. Regan, C.S.B., Principal of St Michael’s College School, and the Reverend Hugh Mallon. Sister Francis was buried in the Community Plot, Mount Hope Cemetery, Toronto.

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Census Returns for Owen Sound, Grey North, Ontario, 1881, C-13261, DIst. 156, subdist. A, division 2, p. 26, household #116; Profession Register of the Sisters of St Joseph, Archives of the Sisters of St Joseph, Toronto. The Profession register also records her mother’s name as “Elizabeth Harvey”.

22 Obituary notice for Sister M. Francis Sullivan, 16 Jan. 1947, Archives of the Sisters of St Joseph, Toronto.

Old St Paul's Church, Power Street (1822-1889) in which the first generation of Sullivans was married and their children baptized.

The Offspring of Michael Sullivan and Bridget Marren 9.

PATRICK JOHN SULLIVAN (1850-1902)

Patrick John, the eldest son of Michael and Bridget Sullivan, was born in Toronto, Canada West on August 25, 1850.23 He was baptized on September 8, 1850 by Fr John Carroll in St Paul’s Catholic Church, Power Street, Toronto. His godparents were William O’Keefe and Mary Clarke. On May 22, 1872 he married Emma Graham, the daughter of Seth Graham and Anna White, in St Michael's Cathedral, Toronto.24 She was born in Cleveland, Ohio on December 25, 1852. According to the 1901 census, Patrick (like his father) was a shoemaker. Later city directories would describe him simply as a “labourer”, but it is likely that he remained in the shoe-making profession. From 1878 to 1889 he and his wife lived at 112 Sherbourne Street.

From there they moved to 8 Blair Avenue, and between 1893 and 1902, when Patrick died, they resided at 148 Duke Street, Toronto, Ontario, now destroyed. Patrick died of cancer in the Home for Incurables in Toronto on April 21, 1902.25 He is buried in St Michael’s Cemetery, Toronto.26

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LUKE J. SULLIVAN (1854-1923)

Luke J., the son of Michael and Bridget Sullivan, was born on March 28, 1854 in Toronto, Canada West.27 He was baptized in St Paul’s Church on April 10, 1853 by Fr J. Fitzhenry, his godparents being his uncle Luke Sullivan and Margaret Chisolm. According to the 1900 American census, Luke immigrated to the state of Illinois in 1879 when he was twenty-five years of age. On December 29, 1881 he married Lucy Skelly of Waukegan, Illinois the daughter of John Skelly and Ann Caroll of County Louth, Ireland.28 According to his obituary notice, Luke was a postal worker who began his career as a substitute clerk in the Chicago Post Office. He transferred to the Los Angeles branch on July 13, 1904, and the family moved to 238 South Flower Street in that city. He was promoted successively to the fifth grade and retired on full pension on March 22, 1922. Shortly after his retirement he suffered a stroke and was briefly paralyzed. He became incapacitated again three months before his death on October 27, 1923.

A devout Catholic, he was accorded the unusual privilege of a Solemn High Requiem Mass for his funeral in St Vibiana’s Cathedral, attended by seventeen members of the local clergy, as well as representatives of the Daughters of Charity, the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart (of which his daughter Marie was a member), the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, and the Little Sisters of the Poor. His wife, Lucy, died on December 27, 1944 in Los Angeles. They are buried there in Calvary Cemetery.

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Parish Registers of St Paul's Catholic Church, Toronto, Ontario. The 1901 census records Patrick's birth date as 23 August 1860.

24 Parish Registers of St Michael's Cathedral, Toronto, Ontario.

25 Death Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 935, reel 104, #2042.

26 Rosar-Morrison Funeral Home records, Toronto, Ontario, 1869-1923 (Toronto : Ontario Genealogical Society, 2000), #5042.

27 Parish Registers of St Paul's Catholic Church, Toronto, Ontario. One of Luke’s obituary notices, however, gives his birth date as March 23, 1857.

28 Marriage Registrations for the State of Illinois, "Electronic," Lic. #00058690. The source states that the bride's surname was "Kelly", though this is contrary to family tradition and to the death certificate Issued by the state of California.

Luke and Lucy had two children, though only the elder two lived to maturity: 20.

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MARIE (Sister MARY IMMACULATA) SULLIVAN FRANCIS JOSEPH SULLIVAN LULU SULLIVAN MABEL SULLIVAN

Luke J. Sullivan (1854-1923)

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MICHAEL SULLIVAN (1855-1928)

Michael, the son of Michael and Bridget Sullivan, was probably born in August of 1855 in Toronto, Canada West.29 He was baptized in St Paul’s Church on September 3, 1855, aged two weeks, by Fr J. Fitzhenry.30 His godparents were Peter and Anne Marren.

On October 18, 1881 he married Alexandrina Elizabeth McDonald, the daughter of Alexander McDonald and Ina Kelly, in St Patrick’s Catholic Church, McCaul Street, Toronto.31 Like his father and several of his brothers he was a shoemaker, working for some time with Charlesworth and Company. After his marriage he lived at 17 St Paul Street, and then returned to his parents’ home at 28 Duchess Street where the couple and their young family remained until 1888 when Michael’s father moved from his Duchess Street house. Given that theirs was a small home and that several of the younger Sullivan children were still living in it, it must have been a very crowded household.

The younger Michael and his family lived at several other addresses in the Cabbagetown neighbourhood including 8 Milan Street, 64 Duchess Street, 1 Duke Street, 233 Ontario Street, and finally 56 Wardell Street in the city’s south Riverdale neighbourhood. The latter years of his working life saw him and his son Michael working as labourers and drivers for the M. Doyle Fish Company of Toronto. His wife, Elizabeth, died in the Toronto General Hospital on December 4, 1910 after suffering a cerebral haemorrhage. She was buried from the family’s Duke Street home on December 6, and interred in Mount Hope Cemetery. According to the 1911 census of the second ward in which Michael then lived, at the age of fifty-five he was still working a sixty hour week and made $468 in the course of 1910. He also had $215 worth of life insurance taken out on himself. Michael died at his daughter Christina’s home at 50 Wardell Street, Toronto on April 24, 1928, was buried two days later from St Ann’s Church, Gerrard Street, and interred in Mount Hope Cemetery.32 In his later years Michael had suffered from senility and arteriosclerosis, but died of sudden coronary thrombosis. Michael Sullivan and Alexandrina Elizabeth McDonald had six children:

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Census Returns for Toronto, Ward 2, 1901, "Electronic," RG31, Dist. 117, b5, p. 8, line 18. The census, however, records his birth as November of 1856.

30 Parish Registers of St Paul's Catholic Church, Toronto, Ontario. Michael’s death registration, however, records his date of birth as 3 Sep. 1860.

31 Marriage Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 932, reel 38, #13990; Parish Registers of St Patrick's Church, Toronto, Ontario.

32 Death Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 935, reel 356, #003396/28; Toronto Star, 25 Apr. 1928, p.

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LUKE SULLIVAN MICHAEL SULLIVAN WILLIAM SULLIVAN PETER SULLIVAN CHRISTINA SULLIVAN MARY IRENE SULLIVAN

MARY SULLIVAN (1857-1928)

Mary, the eldest daughter of Michael and Bridget Sullivan, was born on November 1, 1857 in Toronto, Canada West.33 She married William Alfred Smith on January 11, 1883 in Toronto.34 Mary's mother's name is here given as "Mary", the same name also found in the record of her sister Sarah's marriage to George Ibbotson. The marriage was solemnized by the Rev. John H. Castle, president of McMaster Hall Baptist College and past pastor of Jarvis Street Baptist Church, with Mary's sister Sarah serving as witness. At the time of her marriage, Mary declared herself to be a member of the “English Church”, though in the 1901 census she is again recorded as a Roman Catholic, and in 1911 as a Methodist.35 William was a horse-trainer who worked for the Taylor family of East York, where he and Mary also made their home, at 166 Gamble Avenue in what was then known as Todmorden. In later years, William also worked as an engineer, a stoker, and finally in the shipping department of the Rennie Seeds Company. In 1910 he was working for Moses Builders, and had earned $624.00, compared with $400.00 ten years previously. The couple owned a summer cottage in what is now Long Branch in Toronto’s west end to which many of the Sullivans retreated in the 1920s and 1930s. William died in the Toronto General Hospital on February 12, 192136 and was buried in St John’s Norway Cemetery, Toronto on February 15.37 After her husband’s death, Mary left Gamble Avenue and moved to 110B Broadview Avenue, the home of her youngest sister Emma. On June 9, 1928 she suffered a cerebral haemorrhage. She lived three days longer, dying in St Michael’s Hospital on June 11, 1928.38 She was buried from St Paul’s Catholic Church, Power Street, in St John’s Norway Cemetery two days later.39 Mary Sullivan and William Smith had four sons: 30.

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WILLIAM ALFRED SMITH NORMAN J. SMITH FRANCIS HENRY SMITH CHARLES EDWARD SMITH

Parish Registers of St Paul's Catholic Church, Toronto, Ontario.

Marriage Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 932, reel 45, #14268.

35 Census Returns for the Township of East York, York County, Ontario, 1901, Mom T-6507, Dist. 129, sub district j-3, p. 15; Census Returns for the Township of East York, York County south, Ontario, 1911, Dist. 138, sub district 4, enumeration district 13, p. 11.

36 Toronto Star, 14 Feb. 1921, p. 11.

37 Cemetery Records of St John's Norway, Toronto, Sect. 8, range 11, half plot 33.

38 Death Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 935, reel 356, #04654/28; Toronto Star, 11 June 1928, p. 28.

Her death registration records her birth as 15 August 1858, but correctly identifies her parents as Michael Sullivan and Bridget Marren.

39 Cemetery Records of St John's Norway, Toronto, Sect. 8, range 11, half plot 33.

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L-R. back row: William Smith, James Sullivan, William Jeffery, Perce Smith & Arthur Jeffery; middle row: Mary Sullivan Smith, Maud Jeffery Sullivan, Mame Jeffery, Eva Jeffery Smith, Emma Sullivan Champion, Annie Sullivan Lafferty; front row, 4th from left: Lillian Sullivan, daughter of James & Maud. At Long Branch, Ontario.

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PETER SULLIVAN (1860-1891)

Peter, the son of Michael and Bridget Sullivan, was born on July 28, 1860 in Toronto, Canada West.40 He was baptized in St Paul’s Church, Toronto on August 12, 1860 by Fr F.P. Rooney, his godparents being Martin Daly and Ellen McNertney. Between 1885 and 1888 he is recorded in the Toronto directories as a shoemaker, working at one time for the J.D. King Company. In 1880, Peter stabbed another Duchess Street resident, John Meaney, three times while both men were under the influence of alcohol.41 On February 19, 1891, which according to newspaper accounts was a raw, stormy winter’s day, Peter fell in the Toronto Harbour, where he was working as a “breakwater man”. The account of his death is recorded in the following words from the Toronto Daily News, evening edition of the next day: “Peter Sullivan of 121 George Street, and employe [sic] of the breakwater works at the Island, upset his boat while coming across the bay to the city yesterday. Captain James Quinn and J.J. Jones, of 34 Markham street, went to the rescue in a skiff, and with difficulty saved the drowning man, who had clung to his upturned boat for half an hour. Shortly after Sullivan was taken out he died of exposure, and the 40

Parish Registers of St Paul's Catholic Church, Toronto, Ontario.

“A stabbing affray on Duchess Street - On Saturday a row occurred on Duchess Street between two men named John Meaney and Peter Sullivan. Both parties were under the influence of liquor. It appears that during the scuffle Sullivan stabbed Meaney in three places. Meaney then procured a weapon and attacked Sullivan, inflicting one or two bad wounds. Meaney was arrested on a warrant taken out at the instance of Sullivan. Sullivan's wounds are not dangerous, and he was able to be out yesterday.” The Star, 9 Aug. 1880, p. 6.

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remains were removed to 121 George Street.”42 The official cause of death was heart failure after prolonged exposure to the frigid water.43 Peter was the first to be buried in the Sullivan family plot in St Michael’s Cemetery, Toronto.

Two Globe accounts. On left, of the stabbing incident, 9 Aug. 1880; on right, the death of Peter Sullivan, 20 Dec. 1891, p. 8.

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JOHN SULLIVAN (1862-1862)

John, the son of Michael and Bridget Sullivan, was born on September 22, 1862 in Toronto, Canada West. He was baptized in St Paul’s Church on November 2, 1862 by Fr P.J. Kean, his godparents being Thomas Marren and Honoria McInerny.

John died in infancy.44

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SARAH SULLIVAN (1865-1926)

Sarah Sullivan (at left with husband George and granddaughter Jeanne), the daughter of Michael and Bridget Sullivan, was born on March 20, 1865 in Toronto, Canada West.45 She was baptized in St Paul’s Church on April 2, 1865, her godparents being Valentine Doyle and Anne McInerny.

According to the 1881 census, Sarah was employed as a seamstress. She married George Henry Ibbotson, the son of George and Julia Ibbotson, on June 28, 1888 in Toronto.46 The marriage was solemnized by Rev. R.A. Belkey. George was born in Markham, Canada West, on May 8, 1865. From their marriage until May 10, 1898 they lived in Oshawa, Ontario where Sarah gave birth to her four eldest children, and George worked as a piano stringer. When they first returned to Toronto they lived at 208 Queen Street West, and George became a bicycle repairman.

Shortly thereafter he and Sarah opened a hardware store on the present site of the Toronto Western Hospital which George continued to run after Sarah’s death. Sarah died of she died in 42

The Toronto Daily News, evening edition, Feb. 20, 1891, p. 2.

Death Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS935, reel 63, #19563.

44 Parish Registers of St Paul's Catholic Church, Toronto, Ontario.

45 Parish Registers of St Paul's Catholic Church, Toronto, Ontario; Census Returns for Toronto, Ward 4, 1901.

Sarah listed her birth year in this record as 1866.

46 Marriage Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 932, reel 62, #13990.

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her home at 343 Bathurst Street from myocarditis , bronchial pneumonia and “passive congestion of the liver” on March 21, 1926 and is buried in Prospect Cemetery.47 Her husband died of cancer on August 18, 1934. They had five children: 34.

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FREDERICK IBBOTSON JOSEPH HARRY IBBOTSON FLORENCE IBBOTSON NORMAN IBBOTSON ROY IBBOTSON

L-R., back: George Ibbotson, sons Frederick, Roy, Joseph, wife Sarah Sullivan; front, Norman & Florence.

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ANNIE SULLIVAN (1868-1944)

Annie, the daughter of Michael and Bridget Sullivan, was born March 18, 1868 in Toronto, Ontario.48 She was baptized in St Paul’s Catholic Church on March 29, 1868 by Fr John R. Lee, her godparents being James Doyle and Julia O’Keefe. She married George Lafferty, an agent 47

Toronto Star, 22 Mar. 1926, p. 24.

Parish Registers of St Paul's Catholic Church, Toronto, Ontario; Census Returns for the Town of Cobourg, Northumberland County, Ontario, 1901, Mfm T-6486, Dist. 96, b-7, p. 7. According to the 1901 census, Annie was born on March 10, 1869.

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with Metropolitan Life, but was widowed between 1898 (when her only child was born) and 1901, by which time she had moved to Cobourg with her mother and two brothers John and James.49 After returning to Toronto, Annie worked as a wigmaker for W.T. Pember’s Art Hair Goods House on Yonge Street. She and her daughter boarded at a number of locations around the central Toronto including 209 University Avenue,50 874 College Street,51 97 Christie Street with her niece, Florence Ibbotson,52 and 35 Maitland Avenue.53 After Pember’s she was employed as a “hair worker” at Eaton’s, and in later years as a stenographer After her daughter’s marriage to Arthur Steer, Annie lived in their home at 104 Floyd Avenue in East York. She died in St Michael’s Hospital on November 22, 1944 and was buried from Holy Cross Church, Donlands Avenue in Mount Hope Cemetery, Toronto.54 Annie Sullivan and George Lafferty had one daughter: 39.

ANNIE LAFFERTY

Annie Sullivan Lafferty (1868-1944)

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JOHN SULLIVAN (1870- ?)

Neither a marriage registration nor George Lafferty’s death registration have been located.

Census Returns for Toronto Centre, District 124, Ward 3, p. 3.

51 Might’s Directory, 1918.

52 Might’s Directory, 1922.

53 Might’s Directory, 1933-1936.

54 Toronto Star, 22 Nov. 1944, p. 24.

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John, the second son of Michael and Bridget Sullivan to bear that name, was born on August 29, 1870 in Toronto, Ontario.55 He was baptized in St Paul’s Church on September 18, 1870 by Fr Conway, his godparents being Francis McGrath and Mary Anne O’Keefe. In 1901 he was living in Cobourg, Ontario with his mother, sister Annie, and brother Jimmy. He gave his occupation that year as a weaver in a factory, making $350 in the course of 1900. Like his brother, Luke, he eventually immigrated to Chicago and is perhaps best known for having been a member of the United States Lacrosse team, the St Louis AAA, which played two matches in the 1904 Olympics when that sport was introduced for the first time. They tied the Canadian Mohawk Indian team of Brantford, Ontario (2-2) but were defeated by the Winnipeg Shamrocks, 8-2 to claim the silver medal.

John Sullivan (middle row, 1st on left) and the St Louis AAA Lacrosse Team, Olympic Games, 1904

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EMMA MARY EVELYN SULLIVAN (1874-1925)

Parish Registers of St Paul's Catholic Church, Toronto, Ontario; Census Returns for the Town of Cobourg, Northumberland County, Ontario, 1901, Mfm T-6486, Dist. 96, b-7, p. 7. According to the 1901 census, John was born on March 20, 1872.

Emma, the youngest daughter of Michael and Bridget Sullivan, was born on January 06, 1874.56 She was commonly known as “Babe”. On February 12, 1895 she married a soldier, George Edward Holten Harte Champion (born 1875) in St John’s Garrison Church (Anglican), Toronto.57 By the end of the nineteenth century he had been discharged and the young family rented in the western section of downtown Toronto at 36 Wellington Avenue, among other places. At that time, George was working as a car cleaner.58 By 1901 he was employed as a machinist keeper. By the 1920s the family had moved east, first to 110B Broadview Avenue, and eventually to 85 Hollywood Crescent in Toronto’s east end where Emma died on October 6, 1925.59 She had suffered with uterine cancer for over two years before finally succumbing to cardiac degeneration. Her Requiem Mass was celebrated in Corpus Christi Church, Queen Street and she was buried on October 8th with her parents in St Michael’s Cemetery, Toronto. Emma and George had four daughters: 40.

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Parish Registers of St Paul's Catholic Church, Toronto, Ontario; Census Returns for Toronto, Ward 5, 1901, Mfm. T-6500, c-1, p. 8. Emma's birth year is here recorded as 1875.

57 Parish Registers of St John's Garrison Church (Anglican) 1895-1900, p. [3].

58 Birth Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 931, reel 11, #002406/99.

59 Death Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 935, reel 321, #005561/25; Toronto Star, 7 Oct. 1925, p. 29.

Clementina Champion & mother, Emma Sullivan

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JAMES JOSEPH ALOYSIUS SULLIVAN (1875-1956) James J.A. Sullivan, the last child of Michael and Bridget Sullivan, was born in Toronto on April 2, 1875 and was baptized in St Paul’s Church by Fr John J. Kelly on May 16, 1875.60 His godparents were Francis Sullivan and Mrs Eliza Sullivan, his cousin and aunt respectively. He received his primary education at St Paul’s School with high school at De La Salle College. The youngest of Michael and Bridget’s children, James remained at home until after his mother’s death in 1908. In 1901 he was living in Cobourg where he is believed to have been a speed skating coach, in which sport he was a champion with many medals to his credit. In fact, one of the few remaining portraits from his youth, at left, shows him about the age of twenty in his skates, striking a racer’s pose.

While in Cobourg, James was employed as a spinner in a factory, and he reported that he had earned $350 in 1900. Returning to Toronto, he married Maud Christina Jeffery on February 23, 1909 in St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Leslie Street, 61 Toronto. The marriage was solemnized by Fr Francis Rohleder, and the witnesses were James’ brother Michael Sullivan and Maud’s sister, Florence Jeffery. In the marriage record, James is described as a “traveler” which, in the language of the day, meant a salesman. Jimmy, as he was known, was remembered as a very quiet, gentle man. Since it was often difficult for Irish Catholics to secure good employment in Toronto at the end of the nineteenth century (and well into the twentieth) owing to the city’s domination by the Orange Lodge, James eventually found a position as a stock keeper in the employ of Saunders Lorie Company, a Jewish business. In the 1911 census James is enumerated as a stock keeper, and his wife as a “jewellery factory” worker, which might indicate that it was at Lorie’s that the couple had first met. In 1910 he declared that 60

Parish Registers of St Paul's Catholic Church, Toronto, Ontario; Census Returns for the Town of Cobourg, Northumberland County, Ontario, 1901, District 96, Subdistrict b-7, Archives Microfilm: T-6486. James' birth is here recorded as April 23, 1878.

61 Marriage Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 932, Reel 138, Reg. #001579/09.

he had worked a full fifty-two weeks of the year, fifty hours per week, having earned a grand total of $612.00, or about $11.77 per week.62 After his marriage to Maud, the couple first lived at 2 Badgerow Street, then at 80 Jones Avenue, 3 Doel Avenue (now Dundas Street), 105 Jones Avenue (where his youngest two daughters, Marie and Florence were born), 115 Jones Avenue, and finally at 107 Brooklyn Avenue, all in Toronto’s Riverdale neighbourhood. Later in life, James became badly crippled with rheumatoid arthritis and he was finally forced to take up residence in Our Lady of Mercy Hospital in Toronto’s west end where he died on September 23, 1956 at the age of eighty-one.63 Following a Requiem Mass at St Joseph’s Church, Toronto on September 26, 1956, he was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Thornhill, Ontario. James and Maud had six children: 44.

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LILLIAN MARY SULLIVAN ARTHUR JAMES SULLIVAN GEORGE FRANCIS SULLIVAN JOHN JOSEPH SULLIVAN RITA MARIE SULLIVAN BABY BOY SULLIVAN BABY GIRL SULLIVAN FLORENCE THERESA SULLIVAN

Arthur, George & Lillian Sullivan sitting on the verandah of 105 Jones Avenue

Top left: James Sullivan, Windsor, 1939; bottom right, circa 1950.

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Census Returns for Toronto East, 1911, Enumeration District 43, p. 7.

Toronto Star, September 24, 1956, p. 39.

GENERATION FOUR

The Offspring of Luke Sullivan & Lucy Skelly 20.

MARIE (Sister M. Immaculata, I.H.M.) SULLIVAN (1890-1974) Marie Sullivan, the eldest daughter of Luke Sullivan and Lucy Skelly, was born in Chicago, Illinois on October 29, 1890 and was baptized in St Mathias’ Church in that city.64 She moved to Los Angeles, California with her parents in 1904 and entered the Congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary on December 8, 1906. She received the Habit on November 21 of the following year and made her First Vows on March 20, 1909. She made took Perpetual Vows on April 10, 1912. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in 1942 from Immaculate Heart College, Los Angeles. She was a school teacher by training, and worked in St Thomas, Immaculate Heart of Mary, Blessed Sacrament, and Immaculate Conception Schools in Los Angeles, as well as in Mary Star of the Sea School, San Pedro. She died in Duarte, California on April 25, 1974 at the Santa Teresita Hospital where she had been a patient since 196765 and was buried in the Sisters’ plot in Calvary Cemetery, Los Angeles on April 30, 1974.66

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Archives of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Our Lady of Mercy Convent, Daly City, California; California Death Records, "Electronic," SSN 551-80-7510.

65 California Death Records, "Electronic," SSN 551-80-7510.

66 Archives of the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

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FRANCIS JOSEPH SULLIVAN (1892-1955) Francis Sullivan, the son of Luke Sullivan and Lucy Skelly, was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 3, 1892 in Waukegan, Illinois.67 He moved with his parents and sister Marie to Los Angeles in 1904. On October 23, 1913 he married Alice Donovan, the daughter of John Donovan and Mary Curry, in Blessed Sacrament Church, Los Angeles. Alice was born in Elk Point, South Dakota on December 27, 1893.68 Frank died in Los Angeles on February 26, 1955. His wife survived him twenty years, dying in Los Angeles on January 4, 1975. They are buried in Calvary Cemetery. Frank Sullivan and Alice Donovan had ten children:

Marie & Frank Sullivan, Chicago, ca.

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52. HELEN A. SULLIVAN 53. MARGUERITE SULLIVAN ELIZABETH (Sister Michael, o.p.) SULLIVAN DOROTHY (Sister Francis, d.c.) SULLIVAN FRANCIS JOSEPH SULLIVAN PATRICIA ANN SULLIVAN JOANNE SULLIVAN JOHN LUKE SULLIVAN BARBARA (Sister Barbara, o.p.) SULLIVAN VIRGINIA SULLIVAN

California Death Records, "Electronic," SS# 573480122.

California Death Records, "Electronic," SSN 556-58-2717.

Sullivan family of Los Angeles, California, ca. 1936. Back row, l-r: Alice Donovan Sullivan, Helen, Dorothy, Elizabeth, Marguerite, Frank Sullivan. Front row, l-r: Jack, Barbara, Virginia, Joanne, Patricia, Frank Junior.

Below left, Sister Barbara Sullivan; right, Sister Elizabeth (Michael) Sullivan .

The Offspring of Michael Sullivan & Alexandrina Elizabeth McDonald 24.

LUKE SULLIVAN (1882-1912 )

Luke Sullivan, the eldest son of Michael Sullivan and Alexandrina Elizabeth McDonald was born in Toronto on August 29, 1882.69 In the 1901 census he was recorded as an inmate of the Kingston Penitentiary70 from which he was discharged on November 21 of the same year.71 In 1911 he was still living with his father, his brothers Michael and Peter, and sister Christina at 1 Duke Street.72 At that time he was working on a boat in the Toronto harbour. He had been fully and gainfully employed throughout all of 1910, having earned $500 working sixty hours each week, making him the principal breadwinner of the family for a short time. At the age of thirty Luke died, on September 9, 1912, at the family home, 225½ King Street East. Family physician, Dr H. Glendinning, recorded alcoholism as the primary cause of death, the immediate cause being a three-week bout of bronchitis and myocarditis.73 He was buried from St Michael’s Cathedral on September 12, and interred with his mother in Mount Hope Cemetery.74

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MICHAEL SULLIVAN (1884- )

Michael Sullivan, the son of Michael Sullivan and Alexandrina Elizabeth McDonald, was born in Toronto on August 19, 1884.75 Together with his younger brother William, he first appears in the public record as a resident of 64 Duchess Street, arrested for break and entry at the age of fourteen, when he stole some “prize rings and other articles”.76 He does not appear with the family in the 1901 census, but may be the Michael Sullivan who is described as a “lodger” in Geneva Lake, Nipissing District, working as a lumberjack. He likely returned to Toronto in 1910 since he was recorded in the census taken the following year as living at home in Toronto with his widowed father, but working as a labourer only 36 out of 52 weeks, and earning $312. He eventually became an electrician. Like his brothers, Michael contracted tuberculosis and died unmarried in the Hamilton Sanitarium about the year 1939.

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WILLIAM SULLIVAN (1885-1919)

Census Returns for Toronto, Ward 2, 1911, District 7, p. 5.

Census Returns for Portsmouth, Frontenac County, Ontario, 1901, Mfm T-6467, Dist. 61, subdistrict E, p. 22.

71 Remission Register for 1888-1911, RG 73, Acc. 1980-81/253, Box 91.

72 Census Returns for Toronto, Ward 2, 1911, District 7, p. 5.

73 Death Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 935, reel 173, #005616/12.

74 Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto Branch, Rosar-Morrison Funeral Home Records, Toronto, 1869-1923, 7819.

75 Birth Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 929, reel 69, #44787; Census Returns for Toronto, Ward 2, 1911, District 7, p. 5.

76 “A citizen saw some boys break into the rear of S.T. Britten's establishment at 48 Lombard Street, yesterday, and telephoned police headquarters. Policeman Wallace went to the place and caught Michael Sullivan and William Sullivan of 64 Duchess Street ...” The Globe, 21 Nov. 1898.

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William Sullivan, the son of Michael Sullivan and Alexandrina Elizabeth McDonald, was born in Toronto on February 14, 1885.77 On June 30, 1910 William married Gertrude Stephens in Toronto.78 The marriage was blessed according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church in St Michael's Hospital on February 12, 1915,79 where Gertrude subsequently died on March 2 of the same year of diffuse peritonitis resulting from a miscarriage.80 She was buried from the family home at 126 Clairemont Street on March 5, and interred in Mount Hope Cemetery. After her death, William lived with his father and brother Michael, and sister Christina at 56 Wardell Street, Toronto. William then joined the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force on November 10 of the same year, and was attached to the 2nd Division of the 95th Battalion. A small man, he is described in his enlistment forms as 5 feet, 2 ¾ inches in height, with a dark complexion, blue eyes, and dark brown hair. On June 8, 1916 he arrived in England on board the S.S. Olympic.

His military records indicate that he became ill shortly after his arrival, being first admitted to the Moor Barracks Hospital at Sutcliffe for pleurisy on September 19 of that year. He spent the next two months under care before being “struck off strength” from his unit, and sent to the 2nd Canadian Labour Battalion on New Year’s Day of 1917. The following month, he returned to the 95th Battalion, and was sent to France on February 8, 1917. By the end of May, he was once again admitted to hospital in Etaples complaining of a swelling in the right testicle, and returned to England, where he was readmitted to the Horton War Hospital in Epsom, England on June 20, 1917 for his recurrent tuberculosis. In fact, William had both tuberculosis of the lungs as well as orchitis, an acute inflammation of the testicles secondary to his primary infection. While in the Canadian Field Hospital at Etaples, his right testicle and part of the vas was removed, though the operation was not completed because of William’s bad reaction to the anaesthetic. At the Horton hospital an incision was made in his left testicle to treat its enlargement. Even after the surgeries and treatments, William’s cough persisted and he experienced extreme shortness of breath after any kind of exertion. In December of 1917, however, the attending medical officer signed off on his case saying that treatments were finished, and that “he seems to have derived considerable benefit”. William returned to Canada on April 24, 1918 on board the S.S. Araguaya, disembarking at Halifax. He was paid to April 30, 1918, with a separation allowance of $25, and continued assigned pay of $15. He was officially and honourably discharged as physically unfit on August 10, 1918. Once home, William underwent a round of treatments in the Military Ward of the Toronto General Hospital on June 26, 1918 where he was diagnosed again with pulmonary tuberculosis. Over the course of a six-week treatment he lost ten pounds, and continued to experience dull pain in his right inguinal region which was aggravated by walking. He also experienced impaired movement in the left side of his chest. It was determined that William would not be able to return to his former trade, and that he be transferred for sanitorium treatment.81 William, however, returned to his father’s Wardell Street home where he died on February 8, 1919, the immediate cause of death listed as asthenia, a medical condition denoting a 77

World War I Military Records, National Archives of Canada,, RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 9419 13.Census Returns for Toronto, Ward 2, 1901, "Electronic," RG31, Dist. 117, b5, p. 8, line 20. The census return records William's year of birth as 1886.

78 Marriage Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 932, reel 145, #2823/10.

79 Parish Registers of St Michael's Cathedral, Toronto, Ontario.

80 Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto Branch, Rosar-Morrison Funeral Home Records, Toronto, 1869-1923, 8571. The record actually says “abortion” but the circumstances indicate that it was natural, not procured.

81 All of William’s military details are recorded in the National Archives of Canada, RG 150, Acc. 1992-93/166, Box 9419-13, Discharge documents of William Sullivan, Regt. No. 202039, 95 th Battalion, 2nd Division

feeling of weakness without actual loss of strength.82 He was buried in his brother Peter’s grave in Mount Hope Cemetery. He and Gertrude Stephens had one daughter: 62.

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PETER SULLIVAN (1891-1918)

Peter Sullivan, the son of Michael Sullivan and Alexandrina Elizabeth McDonald, was born in Toronto on July 9, 1891.83 By the age of nineteen he was working in a factory in Toronto, earning $364 for 52 ¼ hours labour per week. Peter, reputedly a fine athlete, was severely injured after he took a baseball to the chest in his twenties. He became infected with tuberculosis, and died on June 30, 1918 at the age of 27, after a seven-month illness.84 The immediate cause of death was exhaustion. He was buried from the family home at 56 Wardell Street at 8:30 on the morning of July 2 and interred in Mount Hope Cemetery.85

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CHRISTINA SULLIVAN (1893-1973)

Christina Sullivan, the eldest daughter of Michael Sullivan and Alexandrina Elizabeth McDonald, was born in Toronto on February 3, 1893.86 As a girl, Christina sang in the gallery choir of St Michael’s Cathedral, Toronto, before the creation of the St Michael’s Choir School.

She received a convent education to the tenth grade, after which she went to work for the government until her marriage to Thomas Calow, which occurred on March 7, 1925. Christina also served as guardian to her niece, Christina, after her father William’s premature death from tuberculosis. Christina Sullivan Calow died in the Scarborough General Hospital on January 31, 1973.87 Her funeral Mass was celebrated in St Patrick’s Church, Markham on February 3, and she was buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Thornhill, Ontario. Thomas Calow and Christina Sullivan had six children: 63.

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Death Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 935, reel 251, #001951/19; Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto Branch, Rosar-Morrison Funeral Home Records, Toronto, 1869-1923, #9741.

83 Census Returns for Toronto, Ward 2, 1901, "Electronic," RG31, Dist. 117, b5, p. 8, line 21.

84 Death Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 935, reel 239, #004461/18.

85 Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto Branch, Rosar-Morrison Funeral Home Records, Toronto, 1869-1923, 9492.

86 Census Returns for Toronto, Ward 2, 1901, "Electronic," RG31, Dist. 117, b5, p. 8, line 22; Birth Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 929, reel 119, #41410. The birth registration actually records the date as April 18; Christina, however, always celebrated her birthday on February 3. Since the birth was not registered until May 20, 1893 the actual date may have been altered to accommodate registration regulations.

87 Toronto Star, 2 Feb. 1973, p. 38*.

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MARY IRENE SULLIVAN (1895- )

Mary Irene Sullivan, the youngest child of Michael Sullivan and Alexandrina Elizabeth McDonald, was born in Toronto on March 7, 1895.88 Since her name does not appear in the 1901 census, it may be presumed that she had died before that date. It is likely that she is the Mary Sullivan who died on February 29, 189689 and is buried with her grandparents in St Michael’s Cemetery.

The Offspring of William Alfred Smith & Mary Sullivan 30.

WILLIAM ALFRED SMITH (1884-1915)

William Alfred Smith, the eldest son of William A. Smith and Mary Sullivan, was born in East York, Ontario on June 11, 1884.90 By 1914, he had married, was living at 116 Coxwell Avenue, and working as a clothing cutter for Eaton’s.91 On November 11, 1914 he enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force, and was attached to the 19th Battalion of the Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment). According to his attestation papers, he was 5’ 5 ½” tall, with a dark complexion, brown eyes and dark hair. He attained the rank of Lance-Corporal before being killed in action on October 20, 1915 at Pas-de-Calais, France.92 He is buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery near Boulogne.

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NORMAN J. SMITH (1893- )

Norman J. Smith, the son of William A. Smith and Mary Sullivan, was born in East York, Ontario on June 29, 1893.93 He was a jeweler by trade and lived next to his parents at 168 Gamble Avenue.

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FRANCIS HENRY SMITH (1895- )

Baptismal Register of St Paul’s Catholic Church, Toronto.

Death Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 935, reel 81, #023432/96.

90 World War I Records, National Archives of Canada (RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166), "Electronic," Box 91182; Census Returns for East York Township, York County, 1901, Mfm. T-6507, Dist. 129, subdist. j-3, "Electronic," p. 15. The census records his birth as 1885.

91 Might’s Toronto Directory (1915), p. 1437.

92 Commonwealth War Graves Records.

93 Census Returns for East York Township, York County, 1901, Mfm. T-6507, Dist. 129, subdist. j-3, "Electronic," p. 15; 88 89

Francis Henry Smith, the son of William A. Smith and Mary Sullivan, was born in East York, Ontario on September 15, 1895.94 Before joining the Canadian Expeditionary Forces, Frank, as he was known, was employed as a machinist. Following his brother’s death, he joined the Canadian army on February 28, 1916. According to his attestation papers he was 5’ 7” in height, with a fresh complexion, light brown eyes, and brown hair.

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CHARLES EDWARD SMITH (1897- )

Charles Edward Smith, the son of William A. Smith and Mary Sullivan, was born in East York, Ontario on April 1, 1897.95 He enlisted with the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force on February 2, 1916 at the age of eighteen. According to his attestation papers, he was 5’ 8” in height with a fair complexion, blue eyes and fair hair.

The Offspring of George Henry Ibbotson & Sarah Sullivan 34.

FREDERICK IBBOTSON (1889- )

Frederick Ibbotson, the eldest son of George Ibbotson and Sarah Sullivan, was born in Oshawa on August 29, 1889.96 On June 24, 1914, he married Dorothy Adeline Forbes in Toronto.97 Frederick died on August 7, 1948 in Toronto. He is buried in Prospect Cemetery, Toronto. He and his wife had one child: 70.

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JEANNE IBBOTSON

JOSEPH HARRY IBBOTSON (1890- )

Joseph Harry Ibbotson, the son of George Ibbotson and Sarah Sullivan, was born in Oshawa, Ontario on Christmas Day of 1890.98 He married Pansy Ovens at St Paul’s Anglican Church, Bloor Street, Toronto on St Valentine’s Day, 1917.99 She was born on June 1, 1890 in Toronto, and died in the same place on March 16, 1959. Harry, as he was commonly known, also died in Toronto, on September 10, 1953. They are buried in St James’ Cemetery, Parliament Street, Toronto. Harry Ibbotson and Pansy Ovens had two daughters:

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Census Returns for East York Township, York County, 1901, Mfm. T-6507, Dist. 129, subdist. j-3, "Electronic," p. 15; World War I Records, National Archives of Canada, (RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166), "Electronic," Box 9038-10. The census record erroneously records his birth year as 1896.

95 Census Returns for East York Township, York County, 1901, Mfm. T-6507, Dist. 129, subdist. j-3, "Electronic," p. 15; World War I Records, National Archives of Canada, (RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166), "Electronic," Box 9019-9.

96 Birth Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 929, reel 95, #026400/89; Census Returns for Toronto, Ward 4, 1901, Mfm T-6499, b-14, p. 14.

97 Marriage Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 932, reel 295, #3509/14.

98 Birth Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 929, reel 106, #29380/91; Census Returns for Toronto, Ward 4, 1901, Mfm T-6499, b-14, p. 14.

99 Marriage Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 932, reel 405, #1487/17.

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MARION BESSIE IBBOTSON BETTY KATHLEEN IBBOTSON

36. FLORENCE GERTRUDE IBBOTSON (1896- ) Florence Ibbotson, the daughter of George Ibbotson and Sarah Sullivan, was born in Oshawa, Ontario on New Year’s Day, 1896.100 Although raised Anglican, she was educated at St. Joseph' Convent School in Toronto, and subsequently had business training before working for some years for the Toronto Kiwanis Music Festival. She had two lengthy trips to England, the first in the late 1920s, accompanied by her niece, Jean Ibbotson, and the second, in 1932. She married Ernest Perry on January 1, 1934 in Toronto. He was born in Bristol, England on October 2, 1893, and emigrated to Canada at in 1910. He went overseas in the Canadian Army in Oct. 1914 and saw action in France and Belgium He was wounded in his right arm and invalided back to England, eventually returning to Canada after the war. Florence died on June 4, 1959 in Toronto; her husband died in October of 1986. They had three children:

73. FLORENCE RUTH PERRY 74. PAUL PERRY 75. DAVID PERRY

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NORMAN THEODORE IBBOTSON (1897-1963 )

Birth Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 929, reel 133, #026738/96; Census Returns for Toronto, Ward 4, 1901, Mfm T-6499, b-14, p. 14. Her birth year is recorded in the 1901 census as 1895.

Norman Ibbotson, the son of George Ibbotson and Sarah Sullivan, was born in Oshawa, Ontario on December 28, 1897.101 From the age of 17 until he joined the Canadian Armed Forces he was a militia member of the Toronto Irish Regiment, attaining the rank of Second Lieutenant. On June 12, 1915, he left his father’s hardware store and enlisted in the Canadian OverSeas Expeditionary Force. The form records, however, that he had been a member of the Queen’s Own Rifles. At enlistment he was described as 5 foot, 6 inches in height, with a fair complexion, blue eyes, and light hair.102 For two years he served as a private in the 2nd Regiment.

On January 26, 1916 he married Ivy Denning in Toronto,103 and re-enlisted on May 14, 1917 in the Field Artillery, with the rank of a Private/Driver.104 He sailed to England on the S.S. Olympic and served in France where he was injured in an accident while driving a truck in September of 1918.

After a long recuperation, he remained afflicted with an ankle injury that persisted throughout the rest of his life. In May 1919 he demobilized and returned to Canada on the S.S. Aquitania. He again worked in the family hardware store at 343 Bathurst Street. He divorced his first wife in the United States and married Stella Marguerite Greatrix in Toronto on October 10, 1931. The divorce, however, was not legal in Canada and this second marriage, therefore, was invalid. With the outbreak of the Second World War, Norman re-enlisted as a private in the Royal Canadian Ordinance Corps in January of 1940 and was sent to England. By 1943 he was promoted to Staff Sergeant. He received a head wound in an air raid in London during the Blitz of 1940, and was also injured in August of 1943 when he was struck by an anti-aircraft. He served in England throughout the war, and was posted to Trafalgar Square in 1944. He was eventually transferred to the Veterans Guard of Canada. While he was in England, he married yet another woman named Mary Donovan (though he was still “married” in Canada) and had three sons by her. He demobilized in July, 1945 and returned to Canada for a short stay before returning to his English family.

Stella eventually remarried. Norman died on July 19, 1963 in Colchester, England, and his ashes

101

Birth Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 929, reel 143, #029296-98; Census Returns for Toronto, Ward 4, 1901, Mfm T-6499, b-14, p. 14.

102 Soldiers of the First World War, National Archives of Canada, Regimental number 404362, RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 4682 – 7.

103 Marriage Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 932, reel 369, #1200/16.

104 Soldiers of the First World War, National Archives of Canada, Regimental number 341257, RG 150, Accession 1992-93/166, Box 4682 – 8.

were returned to Toronto where they were scattered in one of the city’s parks. Norman Ibbotson and Stella Greatrix had three children: 76.

77.

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NORMA JOY IBBOTSON KENNETH EDWARD IBBOTSON MARGUERITE ANN IBBOTSON

By his third wife, Mary Kathleen Donovan, Norman had three more sons: 79.

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RALPH DENNIS IBBOTSON NORMAN MATTHEW IBBOTSON RAYMOND FREDERICK IBBOTSON

ROY KENNETH IBBOTSON (1900- )

Roy Ibbotson, the son of George Ibbotson and Sarah Sullivan, was born in Toronto on July 19, 1900.105 He married Hilda Sullivan. Roy died in Toronto on April 4, 1978 and is buried in Pine Hills Cemetery, Scarborough. Roy Ibbotson and Hilda Sullivan had one daughter: 82.

BARBARA IBBOTSON

The Offspring of George Lafferty & Annie Sullivan 39.

ANNIE LAFFERTY (1898- )

Annie Lafferty, the daughter of George Lafferty and Annie Sullivan, was born in Toronto on May 26, 1898.106 By 1901 she was living with her widowed mother and grandmother Sullivan in Cobourg, Ontario107 but had returned to Toronto by the end of the first decade of the twentieth century. She worked as a stenographer and clerk for Canadian Pacific Express until her marriage to Arthur Steer in 1936. After her marriage, she lived in East York at 104 Floyd Avenue.

The Offspring of George Champion & Emma Sullivan 40.

CLEMENTINA HARTE CHAMPION (1896-1984)

Clementina Harte Champion, the eldest daughter of George Champion and Emma Sullivan, was born in Toronto on December 19, 1896.108 She married William Whiteside in St John’s 105

Birth Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 929, reel 149, #3728/00; Census Returns for Toronto, Ward 4, 1901, Mfm T-6499, b-14, p. 14.

106 Birth Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MSS 933, reel 26, 901905/30.

107 Census Returns for the Town of Cobourg, Northumberland County, Ontario, 1901, Mfm T-6486, Dist. 96, b-7, p.

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108 Census Returns for Toronto, Ward 5, 1901, Mfm. T-6500, c-1, p. 8. The census gives her birth date as Dec. 21.

Anglican Church, Toronto, on May 22, 1920. She and her husband raised their children at 12 Hazel Avenue in Toronto’s east end, where she was also a lifelong member of St Aidan’s Church. Clemmie, as she was known, was also active with the Monarchist League of Canada, of which she was vice-president for a time. She died on her birthday in 1984.109 William Whiteside and Clementina Champion had three children: 83.

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JOAN WHITESIDE WILLIAM WHITESIDE ROSS WHITESIDE

MARY HARTE CHAMPION (1899- )

Mary Harte Champion, the daughter of George Champion and Emma Sullivan, was born at 36 Wellington Avenue in Toronto on April 15, 1899.110 She married Robert Blood on July 5, 1924.

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EMMA HARTE CHAMPION (1901- )

Emma Harte Champion, the daughter of George Champion and Emma Sullivan, was born at 36 Wellington Avenue in Toronto on December 8, 1901.111 She married Edward Long on November 20, 1927.

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EDITH HARTE CHAMPION (1904- )

Edith Harte Champion, the daughter of George Champion and Emma Sullivan, was born on May 27, 1904 in Toronto. On February 12, 1927 she married Charles McCurdy.

109

The Globe and Mail, 21 Dec. 1984.

Birth Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 931, reel 11, #002406/99.

111 Birth Registrations for the Province of Ontario, MS 929, reel 153, #005355/01.

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The Offspring of James Sullivan & Maud Jeffery 44.

LILLIAN MARY SULLIVAN (1909-1986)

Lillian Mary, daughter of James Sullivan and Maud Jeffery, was born on December 16, 1909 in Toronto, Ontario. Like the rest of her siblings after her, she was baptized in, and attended, St Joseph’s Church, Leslie Street, Toronto as well as the parochial school attached to it run by the Sisters of St Joseph. It was also at St Joseph’s that she married Herbert George Carveth, the son of John Carveth and Jane McGee, on September 29, 1934. After their marriage Bert and Lillie moved to Windsor, Ontario where they lived for several years before returning to the Toronto area, living at various times in New Toronto as well as in the city’s east end again. Bert died on June 7, 1957 in New Toronto and is buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Thornhill, Ontario. Lillian survived her husband almost thirty years, dying in Toronto on September 28, 1986. She is buried with her husband.

Wedding picture of Lillian and husband Bert Carveth. The child on left is Marie Sullivan; in middle is Florence Sullivan, both in paper dresses.

They

had three children: 86.

JOHN HERBERT CARVETH 87.

CAROL MARIE CARVETH 88.

MAUREEN THERESA CARVETH

Left: Lillian, George & Arthur Sullivan, 1916; below left: Arthur Sullivan, 1916; below right: Lillian Sullivan, ca. 1918.

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ARTHUR JAMES SULLIVAN (1910-1992)

Arthur James, the eldest son of James Sullivan and Maud Jeffery, was born in Toronto on December 28, 1910. He was afflicted by a congenital curvature of the spine which caused him difficulty throughout his life. He remained in the family home on Brooklyn Avenue and never married. After his mother’s death in 1964 he moved to the Moss Park Apartments at Queen and Parliament, and lived a comparatively lonely life. He died at True Davidson Acres, East York the age of 81 years on April 17, 1992. He is interred in Holy Cross Cemetery, Thornhill, Ontario.

Left: Maud Sullivan and daughters Florence & Marie on Marie’s wedding day; below seated: James & Maud Sullivan with son Arthur; standing left to right: Jack & Marie Mercer with baby Paul, Marie & Jack Sullivan; Irene Sullivan at far right.

Below: Art Sullivan & Mark Mercer

Left: George Sullivan with father, James, on his back

46. GEORGE FRANCIS SULLIVAN (19141966) George Francis, the son of James Sullivan and Maud Jeffery, was born on April 19, 1914 in Toronto, Ontario. He attended St Joseph’s School and Riverdale Collegiate. He married Irene Isabel Mary Mawhinney, daughter of James Mawhinney and Elizabeth Petterson, on October 14, 1940 in St Joseph’s Church, Toronto. After a lengthy battle with cancer, George died at the age of fiftytwo on February 10, 1966. A long-time employee of the General Electric Company, he also served in the Armed Services during the Second World War. Irene lived another thirty-two years, dying in Aurora, Ontario on June 3, 1998. They are buried in Holy Cross Cemetery, Thornhill, Ontario. George and Irene lived on Glebeholme Boulevard in Toronto where they raised their four children: 89. DARLENE MARIE SULLIVAN 90. DOUGLAS PAUL SULLIVAN 91. JANICE ELIZABETH SULLIVAN 92. FRANCES IRENE SULLIVAN

Back: Irene & George Sullivan, Glady; front: Marie & Florence Sullivan

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JOHN JOSEPH SULLIVAN (1917- ) Like his brother George, Jack Sullivan also served in the military during the Second World War, though he was posted no farther than Barrie, Ontario. On January 7, 1939 he married Marie Hennessey, the daughter of Michael Hennessey and Sarah Ann May in St Anne’s Catholic Church, east Toronto.

After the war, Jack became a salesman before opening up his own jewellery shop. When that business folded he went on to work for the Liquor Control Board of Ontario and the Ontario Jockey Club. After his wife Marie died in Toronto on January 17, 1991, he divided his time between his home and Florida for several years before finally retiring to Tavistock, Ontario to be near his son, Michael. Jack and Marie had two sons:

Marie Hennessey & Jack Sullivan, Jewellers’ Ball, February 1941

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JOHN JOSEPH SULLIVAN MICHAEL JAMES

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RITA MARIE SULLIVAN (1922- )

After finishing her educations at St Joseph’s Catholic School and Eastern Commerce, Marie and her younger sister, Florence worked in the jewellery trade for a firm called Lackie’s. On July 25, 1953 Marie married William John Mercer, the adopted son of William Mercer and Lena Ford, officers in the Salvation Army. By birth, however, Jack was actually a member of the Ballantyne family of Perth County, Ontario. During World War II, Jack served in the Royal Canadian Navy and saw action in the Battle of the Atlantic. After their marriage, he worked in a variety of jobs, principally and in the food and hospitality industry. He died of a heart attack on July 9, 1983 in Toronto and was buried in Pine Hills Cemetery, Toronto. Marie also held a variety of jobs, including her two longest as a jewellery clerk at Hancock’s Jewellers on Coxwell Street, and as a greeter at the O’Connor Brothers Funeral Home in east Toronto. The Mercer family cottage on Black Lake in the village of Torrance, Ontario, which had previously belonged to Jack’s adoptive parents, was the setting for numerous family events over a period of more than fifty years. Victoria Day fireworks began “the season”, followed by long-weekend parties, and annual pig roasts, culminating with Thanksgiving celebrations marking the close of the cottage year. This last celebration was marked by a large family meal for several families, including Florence’s with visits from the children of Jack and George. No Thanksgiving night was complete without an evening visit to the local cemetery where ghost stories were told by the light of a jack-o-lantern. The cottage passed to Marie and Jack’s middle son, Mark and his wife Kris while the eldest son Paul and his wife Kathy kept a summer home nearby on Lake Muskoka.

Marie and Jack had three children: 95.

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PAUL WILLIAM MERCER JAMES MARK MERCER DARLENE MARIE MERCER

49-50. TWIN BABY BOY & BABY GIRL SULLIVAN (1923-1923)

Twin children were born to James Sullivan and Maud Jeffery on August 27, 1923 at 105 Jones Avenue, Toronto. According to the attending physician, Dr M.J. Brown, their births were premature, and they lived only ten minutes. They were buried in a “poor grave” in Mount Hope Cemetery on August 28.112

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FLORENCE THERESA SULLIVAN (1926-1994)

Florence Theresa Sullivan was the youngest of James and Maud’s children.

Her junior education was received at St Joseph’s School on Leslie Street in the city’s east end before attending high school at Riverdale Collegiate Institute.

After completing the eleventh grade she began working at Lackie’s Jewellers in downtown Toronto and at the age of twenty married John James Swingler on May 18, 1946.113 She gave birth to her first child, Valerie Anne, February 8, 1950, but the child was born with a weak heart and died only days later.114 Subsequently, Florence had two more children - Donna Marie and Jane Ellen before stress in the marriage led to its dissolution. She began working at the Colgate-Palmolive Company on Carlaw Avenue in 1958 and then bought a home for herself and her daughters at 35 Greenwood Avenue in the east Riverdale area of the city. On July 4, 1960 she married Pearce Carefoote (pictured above), a coworker from Colgate’s, at the Toronto City Hall and a new family was established. A third child followed in 1961, Pearce James. On September 3, 1986 she suffered a cerebral haemorrhage followed by several strokes. The last years of her life were lived in the Providence Villa Centre, Scarborough where she died on January 27, 1994. Her funeral Mass was celebrated by her son, Pearce, in the chapel of Providence Villa on January 31 with His Excellency, Bishop Pearse Lacey in attendance and performing the committal. She was then buried in Pine Hills Cemetery, Scarborough. Florence had four children; three daughters by her first husband, John James Swingler and a son by her second husband, Pearce Arnold Carefoote: 98.

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VALERIE ANNE SWINGLER DONNA MARIE SWINGLER JANE ELLEN SWINGLER PEARCE JAMES CAREFOOTE

Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto Branch, Rosar-Morrison Funeral Home Records, Toronto, 1869-1923, 11034.

113 Toronto Star, May 31, 1946, p. 20.

114 Toronto Star, February 9, 1950, p. 37.

Florence, circa 1945