Hello to Joe, Brenda, Kevin, and others in this thread,
My ancestors also came from Placentia – James Walsh married to Catherine Flin (Flynn) – parents of my great-great grandfather Patrick Walsh, born in Placentia in 1865. Recently I started to extract all Walsh and Flynn mentions in the Catholic baptismal records for Placentia and I see that they married O’Reillys at times throughout the years. There is also a possibility that there is some connection to Archbishop Roche as my grandmother talked about him, however, I don’t know in what context, whether she was saying we were related to him or whether she just knew him. I have been reading Dr. Mannion’s articles on the Placentia Historical Society site and so I was interested in Joe Brazil’s mention of him. I was wondering if anyone knows if Dr. Mannion has an online database anywhere that lists the names of Placentia people he came across in his research. Also, I have a website for my Newfoundland ancestry – Marshalls from Burin, St. Croix and Bishops and others from St. Mary’s and Walsh and Flynn from Placentia. If it can help anyone, they can see it at http://www.pbalkcom.com/marshall-o If anyone has done any Walsh or Flynn research from the area, I would be greatly interested.
Thanks,
Pat Balkcom