McGillicuddy

(from Beers)

Eusebius (1832–), James Henry, Jordan, and Sarah McGillicuddy were young children when their parents died. Their uncle John Roache brought the three boys to a farm in Halton County, Canada West in 1840 and hired a couple to look after the boys and the land. Their little sister Sarah was left in Ireland with an aunt. (Eventually Sarah came to Halton as well.)

Eusebius attended school in Halton until he was 18, then he went to the United States for a year. Upon his return he bought 100 acres on the Egremont Rd. in Warwick Twp., cleared it and built a frame house and good outbuildings.

In 1851 Eusebius married Ann Jane Fulerton. They had ten children: James (who died young), John (a veterinarian), Jordan (a Warwick farmer), James (a doctor), William, Robert E. (a Warwick farmer), Mary (who married William Janes, a Warwick farmer), Sarah Jane (who married Edward White, a Warwick farmer), Catherine (who married Warwick farmer William Smith), and Margaret.

Eusebius’ brother James Henry (1839–) was an infant when he came to Canada. In the 1860s he came to Warwick Twp. to be nearer his brother. He bought 100 acres on the Egremont Rd., then in 1889 sold this tract of land and bought 180 acres on 18 Sideroad.

In 1875 James Henry married Susanna Liddy, daughter of John Liddy of Warwick Twp. They had five children: James Franklin, John Edward Warner (a medical doctor), Charles Arthur, Walter Eusebius (a lawyer), and Adelia May.

Eusebius and James Henry’s brother Jordan took up store keeping in Wentworth County, and remained there until his death.

Chapter 24 of 25 - McGillicuddy Family

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