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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 Cty. Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death 17 Mar 1914  Brechin, Mara Twp., Ontario County. Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 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 I110  Lamb Family Tree
    Last Modified 16 Feb 2019 

    Father Michael McDonnell,   b. 10 Mar 1856, Canada West Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Dec 1946, Toronto, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years) 
    Mother Margaret Ann Moffatt,   b. 24 Dec 1866, Mara Twp. Ontario Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jun 1957, Toronto, York County, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 90 years) 
    Marriage 20 Nov 1883  St. Columbkilles Ch. Uptergrove, Ontario Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F31  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart


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