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Note for: Michael Fay, 1870 -
Michael emigrated to the U.S. in 1892 at the age of 21. Became a naturalized citizen and employed as a railway conductor and later a civil servant . Married to Catherine E.------- in the Boston area.
In 1920 Michael and his family were living at 159 Gold Street, South Boston.
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Note for: John O'Regan, 21 MAY 1831 - 1885
John went to St.Bathans in central Otago to seek his share of gold in the new fields. Gold rush was on.
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Note for: James Thomas O'Regan, 1 MAY 1872 -
Thomas was in Moncton in 1872. He was working there for the Inter colonial Railway. Earlier he had worked for the railway as track master in Truro, N.S. until his death in July 1891. Records also listed Daniel as the operator of the Cable House, a hotel at Main and Foundry streets in Moncton. In 1870/80 they had 8 employees not including his own direct family.
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Note for: William A. (Will) Waddell, 1888 - 3 DEC 1984
Will was a banker in Ottawa. They had no children.
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Note for: William Timothy O'Regan, -
William was a fighter pilot in the RAF's Eagle Squadron, then USAF career officer. Died Oct. 1980 in Spokane, Washington.
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Note for: Catherine Ageline Hughes, 14 NOV 1876 -
Kate attended the Notre Dame Convent and later the Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown where she graduated with Honour in 1892. She took her examination for a First Class Teachers License that June, prior to her 16th birthday and passed with a mark of 994, 144 points above the requirement. (The Island Guardian 20 June 1892)
Kate was appointed the first Provincial Archivist for Albert in 1908 after some years as a journalist with the Montreal Star and Edmonton Bulletin. She was appointed Ass. Agent General in London, England in 1912 where she remained until her retirement in Oct. 1916 to meet a request from Sir William Van Horne to write his biography. She had earlier written the biographies of her uncle Archbishop O'Brian, Man and Churchman, 1906 and Pere Lacombe: The Blackrobe Voyageur, 1911, who had been a friend of Sir William.
She wrote for many periodicals using her own name and pseudonyms of Katherine Hope and Catherine O'Driscoll.
She was a founding member of the Canadian Women's Press Club in 1904 and vice president in 1909 when she made a journey through the Peace River and Athabascan Districts in Northern Alberta by frontier stage, canoe and riverboat to collect material for the Alberta Archives.
Kate moved to New York in 1918 after her mother died and wrote articles, monographs and speeches in support of the Irish Republican movement. She was involved with the Irish Progressive League and then the Friends of Irish Freedom and appeared before the federal House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs in December 1918 as the spokesperson for the Irish Women 's Council of America.
In 1919 she established the Irish National Bureau in Washington and became Secretary that year. She resigned in May 1920 when her associates John Devoy(Gaelic-Amer. newspaper) & Judge Daniel F. Cohalan (Friends of Irish Freedom) had a falling out with her friend President Eamon de Valera of Ireland.
She made speaking tour in U.S., Australia and Canada in support of DeValera and the Self-Determination for Ireland League 1919-1921 and help organized branches in various cities.
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Note for: Helen Irene A. O'Regan, 13 OCT 1920 -
Helen Irene goes by the name Irene retired in 1989 and moved to Redding, Cal.
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Note for: Wilma Edith (Sis) Jones, 7 FEB 1928 -
Was a Pacific Bell manager in Buena Park, Ca. Moved to Redding, Ca in 1998.
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Note for: John Fay, 1842 - 6 JUN 1925
In 1842-1925 John worked as a cloth finisher in an Irish woollen mill, but in Canada he worked as a railway conductor, before opening a general store in Almonte, Ont.