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Mary Ellen MCDONNELL

Female 1884 - 1914  (29 years)


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  • Name Mary Ellen MCDONNELL 
    Birth 16 Sep 1884  Rama Twp., Ontario Co. North, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Death 17 Mar 1914  Brechin, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    • Mary Ellen perished in the Brechin Hotel fire:


      About 1:30 am, on March 17, 1914, Charles McNarney, a bartender of the Brechin Hotel was awaken by smoke , and he gave alarm to the fifteen people in the hotel. By that time the whole basement of the hotel had been burnt away. Some made their escape through windows, and some by a back stair. Their rescue was effected by Victor Adair, Charles McNarney and Patrick McLean, boarders in the hotel.

      The Orillia Times newspaper account of the fire tells of three maids sleeping in a room on the third floor, Miss Maggie McNarney, Miss Etta Crosby and Miss Josie Callaghan. The former two jumped from the window and were more or less injured by the fall. Miss Callaghan seemed to lack the nerve to follow their example, and while she hesitated it is supposed she was overcome by smoke and fell back into the burning building. The McCauley family attempted their escape by the back stairs. Mrs. Mary Ellen McCauley (nee McDonnell) was carried out of the building, but had died from suffocation. It was several hours later that the injured Mr. Thomas McCauley regained consciousness, to learn of the death of his wife, and two of his children, John William, age 5, and a 10 month old infant son, Dennis Thomas. Two other children did survive, a son, Patrick Michael, age 7 and a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, age 2.

      An inquest into the four deaths in the burning of the Brechin Hotel was held, the jury brought in a verdict of accidental death, for which blame was attached to no person. The Orillia Times declared it was One of the most shocking causalities ever recorded in this district.


      a copy of the Orillia Times article, dated 19 March 1914, appears on page 360 of the book...they came to mara...
    Burial St. Andrew\'s Cemetery, Brechin, Mara Twp Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I00281  Hayes McDonnell
    Last Modified 16 Feb 2019 

    Father Michael MCDONNELL,   b. 10 Mar 1856, Highland Creek, Scarborough Twp., York Co. Ontario Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Dec 1946, Toronto, York Co. Ont. Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years) 
    Mother Margaret Ann MOFFATT,   b. 24 Dec 1866, Mara, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jun 1957, Toronto, York Co, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years) 
    Marriage 20 Nov 1883  St. Columbkille's Ch, Uptergrove, Mara Twp. Ontario Co. Ont Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Family ID F00012  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Thomas MCCAULEY,   b. Aug 1875, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Marriage 15 Jan 1906  St Columbkilles, Uptergrove, Mara Twp. Ontario County, Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Children 
     1. Patrick Michael MCCAULEY,   b. 18 Feb 1907, Brechin, Mara Twp. Ontario Co, ONT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Before 2000 (Age 92 years)
     2. John William MCCAULEY,   b. 28 Aug 1908, Brechin, Mara Twp. Ontario Co, ONT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Mar 1914, Brechin, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 5 years)
     3. Mary Elizabeth MCCAULEY,   b. 07 Aug 1911, Brechin, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Apr 2000, Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)
     4. Dennis Thomas Francis MCCAULEY,   b. 26 May 1913, Brechin, Mara Twp. Ontario Co, ONT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Mar 1914, Brechin, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 0 years)
    Family ID F00220  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 

  • Sources 
    1. [S00015] Baptism record, St. Columbkille's Ch. Uptergrove, LDS film 1305889, item 32A, P.33 source G. McPeak.
      Mary Ellen McDonnell, born Rama 16 Sept. '84, baptized 21 Sept. '84 dau. of Michael McDonnell, born Canada & Margaret Moffatt, born Canada by P. Rey

    2. [S00014] Ontario, Archive records- Death, MS 935-200.
      Brechin, Ontario Co. Mara Twp. Mary Ellen McCauley sic (McCowley) died March 17, 1914, of suffocation by smoke,: husband, Thomas McCauley, sic (McCowley) daug. of Michael McDonald sic (McDonnell) & Margaret Moffatt

    3. [S00061] Church Marrige record, St. Columkille's Uptergrove, Mara Twp., LDS film # 1305889, item # 2b, p.20 source G McPeak.
      on the 20th Nov. 1883, were married Michael McDonnell, age 27, of Rama, s/o William McDonnell & Mary Hay, and Ann Moffat, age 17, of Mara: dau. of the late Jeremiah Moffat, and Mary Kelly: witness John Tahany, Bridget Moffat, by P. Rey, pastor.

    4. [S00027] archives of Ont. --marriages, MS932_44, # 008995.
      Michael McDonald (sic) 27 years, of Rama, born Canada, farmer, son of Wm. McDonnell (sic) and May Hay, married Nov. 20. 1883, to Margaret Moffatt, 17, of Mara, daug. of Jerimiah Moffatt & Mary Kelly, witness John Tahany Rama, Bridget Moffatt, Mara, in Uptergrove by Rev. P. Rey

    5. [S00027] archives of Ont. --marriages, MS932_123, Mara twp. Ontrio Co.
      Mary Ellen McDonnell, 21, of Rama Twp. Housemaid, daug. of Mic'l McDonnell & Margaret Ann Moffatt, married Thomas McAuley, 30, of Brechin, born Tipperary Ireland, Bar Tender, son of Patrick Mc Auley & Mary Ann Malone.


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