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Ellen JORDAN

Female 1836 - 1909  (73 years)


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  • Name Ellen JORDAN 
    Birth 28 Apr 1836  Co. Mayo, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Burial Dec 1909  St. Andrews R.C. Cemetery, Brechin, Mara Twp. Ontario County, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 23 Dec 1909  Brechin, Mara Twp., Ontario Co., Ontario, St. Andrew'sR.C Ch Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I00264  McCORKELL
    Last Modified 17 Jan 2023 

    Father Martin JORDAN,   b. County Mayo, ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Mar 1947, Mara Twp., Ontario Co Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Cecilia GARRETT,   b. 1815, County Mayo, ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1875, Mara Twp., Ontario Co Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years) 
    Family ID F11  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Peter O'DONNELL,   b. 1830, Co. Mayo, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1864, Mara Twp, Ontario Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 34 years) 
    Marriage 08 Jan 1854  Ontario County, Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Mary O'DONNELL,   b. 16 Oct 1854, Mara Township, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Feb 1928, Brechin, Ont Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
     2. Anne O'DONNELL,   b. 21 Dec 1856, Mara Twp, Ontario Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Dec 1931, Saginaw, Michigan, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
     3. Marrin Joseph O'DONNELL,   b. 04 Jun 1858, Mara Twp, Ontario Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Aug 1945, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
     4. Catherine O'DONNELL,   b. 10 Mar 1860, Mara Twp, Ontario Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 03 Jun 1947, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
     5. Cecelia O'DONNELL,   b. 23 Mar 1862, Mara Twp, Ontario Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Mar 1943, Medonte, Simcoe Co Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)
    Family ID F00071  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Patrick MANGAN,   b. 25 Dec 1840, Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jan 1929, 129 Coldwater St., Orillia, Simcoe Co Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years) 
    Marriage 18 Feb 1865 
    Children 
     1. Bridget MANGAN,   b. 13 Jan 1866, Mara Twp, Ontario Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 May 1955 (Age 89 years)
     2. Peter MANGAN,   b. 28 Mar 1868, Mara Twp, Ontario Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 8 Sep 1939, Orillia, Simcoe Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 71 years)
     3. Margaret MANGAN,   b. 28 May 1871, Mara Twp, Ontario Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Jan 1939, Chicago, Cook, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years)
     4. Sarah Catherine MANGAN,   b. 12 Sep 1873, Mara Twp, Ontario Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Apr 1937, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 63 years)
     5. Patrick Joseph MANGAN,   b. 08 Aug 1876, Mara Twp, Ontario Co., Ontario Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Oct 1962 (Age 86 years)
    Family ID F00072  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • excerpt from Rev. Edmund McCorkell's Family history, circa 1972, source www.ramarahistoryonline.web

      "...A big change in the O’Donnell -Jordan branch of the family took place in the year 1864. The head of the household, Peter O’Donnell, was fatally injured at a barn raising, and died soon after at the age of 34, leaving his wife, Ellen Jordan with 6 children, 5 girls and 1 boy. What was the widow to do? My Mother, the eldest child, had not yet reached her 11th birthday. If there was a school in the area, which I doubt, my Mother left it and got what work she could. It was probably a few years later than this date when she did domestic work for a family in Rochester, N.Y. How she got there and how long she remained I have never been able to find out. It may well have been that she had already fixed her gaze upon Joe McCorkell of the Brechin parish, who was exactly her age. If so, one can understand why she came back after such a short time that details of her Rochestor period have been completely forgotten. What we do know is that she did return and as a result our history was substantially altered.

      In the meantime Divine Providence intervened. Patrick Mangan (always referred to as Pat) married the O’Donnell widow with 6 children. It was a time of strong faith nourished by the trials of pioneer life, when men and women envisioned large families as blessings. They never completely forgot the passage in the Book of Psalms:

      Truly sons are a gift of God
      Indeed the sons of youth
      Are like arrows in the hand of a warrior.
      Oh the happiness of the man
      Who has filled his quiver with them (Psalm 126)

      Pat Mangan took over a family of 6 and went on to add 5 more. It was a happy as well as a fruitful marriage. I had the privilege of being at the bedside of the dying Ellen (Jordan) Mangan 40 years later. Touching indeed it was to see the sorrow of her grown up sons and daughters, and in particular to see the sorrow of her surviving husband. There was, nevertheless an undercurrent of joy too at the end. They knew that a great soul had gone to God.

      This was to be the scene after another 40 years. In the meantime Pat Mangan had his work to do. If a family have been bequeathed to him, the children had to be clothed, fed and trained in Christian living, and additional children also if God sent them. Indeed God did send them in due course to the number of 5. One, of them, named Patrick after his father, is of special interest to me. He was to be my godfather at baptism. The others were Bridget Ellen, Peter, Margaret and Sarah. ..."


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