Helen (Hélène) "Ellen" Moloney
Born: c. 1798 Percé, Québec
Married: 1822-Feb-27 Percé, Québec
Spouse: William Morrissey
Witnesses: Jean ("Becker") Blondin [bride's uncle], Jean Morrisssey [groom's brother], and James Rooney.
Died: 1892-Aug-25 Île Bonaventure, Québec
Buried: 1892-Aug-25 Cimetière de l'Île Bonaventure, Québec
Funeral: 1892-Nov-18 Île Bonaventure, Québec
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Helen (Hélène) "Ellen" Moloney
Born: c. 1798 Percé, Québec
Married: 1822-Feb-27 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Spouse: William Morrissey
Witnesses: Jean ("Becker") Blondin [the bride's uncle], Jean Morrisssey [the groom's brother], and James Rooney.
Died: 1892-Aug-25 Île Bonaventure
Buried: 1892-Aug-25 Cimetière de l'Île Bonaventure, Québec
Funeral: 1892-Nov-18 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Witnesses: "all the inhabitants of Bonaventure Island"
Father: William Moloney, of Ireland
Mother: Johanna (Josephte) Becker-dit-Blondin, of Québec, Québec
1Registre de St-Michel de Percé: 1801-1941.
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Second Generation
Helen "Ellen" Moloney's Family
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Husband: William Morrissey
Born: n.a.
Married: 1822-Feb-27 Île Bonaventure, Québec, Québec
Died: c. 1866 Île Bonaventure, Québec
Father: Patrick Morrissey, of l'Île Bonaventure, Québec
Mother: Mary Fitzgerald, of l'Île Bonaventure, Québec
Wife: Helen (Hélène) "Ellen" Moloney
Born: c. 1798 Percé, Québec
Married: 1822-Feb-27 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Spouse: William Morrissey
Witnesses: Jean ("Becker") Blondin [the bride's uncle], Jean Morrisssey [the groom's brother], and James Rooney.
Died: 1892-Aug-25 Île Bonaventure
Buried: 1892-Aug-25 Cimetière de l'Île Bonaventure, Québec
Funeral: 1892-Nov-18 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Witnesses: "all the inhabitants of Bonaventure Island"
Father: William Moloney, of Ireland
Mother: Johanna (Josephte) Becker-dit-Blondin, of Québec, Québec
Child 1 M William (Guillaume) Morrissey
Born: 1820-Dec-29 Île Bonaventure, Québec
Married: 1852-Nov-23 Cap St. Ignace, Québec2
Spouse: Bibianne Bernier
Died: 1897-Mar-14 Île Bonaventure, Québec
Buried: 1897-Mar-16 Cimetière de l'Île Bonaventure, Québec
Funeral: 1897-Apr-22 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Witness: Louis Moreau
Child 2 M Thomas Morrissey
Born: 1822-Apr-14 Île Bonaventure, Québec
Baptized: 1822-Oct-19 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Godparents: Francis Eden and Marie Dro[ug]hon [baby's uncle's wife].
Married: 1866-Jan-19 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Spouse: Sara "Sally" Lamb
Witnesses: John Lamb and Peter Aubert
Died: 1874-Oct-18 Île Bonaventure, Québec
Buried: 1874-Oct-20 Cimetière de l'Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Witnesses: John Cody [cousin of the deceased] and Lawrence Hennessey
Child 3 M Joseph Henri "Henry" Morrissey
Born: c.1824-Mar-19 Île Bonaventure, Québec
Baptized: 1825-Jun-19 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Godparents: Joseph Labbé and Bibianne Be[c]ker-dite-Blondin [baby's cousin].
Died: n.a.
Child 4 F Rosalie MorrisseyNB
Born: 1827-Mar-11 Île Bonaventure, Québec
Baptized: 1827-Aug-19 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Godparents: Alexis (M'ginnis) McGinnis and Marie Marthe Fournier [baby's great-uncle's wife].
Died: n.a.
Child 5 F Biddy Jane MorrisseyNB
Born: 1830-Aug-17 Île Bonaventure, Québec
Baptized: 1830-Sep-26 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Godparents: Julien Arbour and Jane Morrissey [baby's cousin].
Died: n.a.
Child 6 F Mary Sara(h) Morrissey
Born: 1833-Mar-29 Île Bonaventure, Québec
Baptized: 1833-Aug-29 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Godparents: John Miles [husband of a cousin of the baby] and Sally Morrissey [baby's cousin]
Married: 1860-Sep-03 Chapelle de Saints-Anges-Gardiens de l'Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Spouse: Firmin "Césaire" Bernier
Witnesses: Hyppolite Caron and Thomas Morrissey [bride's brother]
Died: n.a.
Child 7 F Helena "Ellen" Morrissey
Born: 1835-Nov-19 Île Bonaventure, Québec
Baptized: 1836-Mar-30 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Godparents: John Morrissey [baby's uncle] and Helena Morrissey [baby's aunt].
Married: 1858-Sep-28 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Spouse: William Fennessey
Witnesses: John Lamb and Jeremiah (Donahea) Donahue.
Died: 1881-Oct-16 Percé, Québec
Buried: 1881-Oct-18 Cimetière de St-Michel de Percé, Québec1
Witnesses: James (Burmigham) Birmingham, Andrew Flynn and Martin Kane
Child 8 M John Morrissey
Born: 1838-Dec-18 Île Bonaventure, Québec
Baptized: 1839-Mar-18 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Godparents: William Sisk and Margaret McCarthy.
Died: 1860 Brazil
Child 9 F Mary Morrissey
Born: 1841-Jul-26 Île Bonaventure, Québec
Baptized: 1841-Aug-25 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Godparents: François Nollet and Harriet Lawrence [baby's cousin]
Liaison: c. 1859 Île Bonaventure, Québec
Partner: unidentified
Married: 1870-Oct-04 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Spouse: Jules Gaudreault
Witnesses: John Morrissey ("bride's brother-in-law") and John Lamb ("groom's friend").
Died: n.a.
Child 10 F Joanna "Joan" MorrisseyNB
Born: c. 1824? Île Bonaventure, Québec
Married: 1872-Apr-08 Percé, Québec1
Spouse: Frederic McGinnis [widower of Geneviève "Jane" Morrissey, bride's first cousin; hence, dispensation for second degree of consanguinity]
Witnesses: William (Fenecy) Fennessy ("bride's brother-in-law") and Phillip Molloy ("groom's friend"); & signatures: "O[wen] T[homas] Connick M.D.", "Harriet Journeaux" [bride's cousin] & "Joseph McGuines" [groom's cousin]
Died: 1907-Nov-02 Percé, Québec
Buried: 1907-Nov-04 Cimetière de St-Michel de Percé, Québec1
Witnesses: Charles Lamb, Dr. S[imon] Grenier, Dr. J[oseph] Arthur Pidgeon, J[oseph] A[rthur] L'Esperance, James O'Brien & Jean Laflamme.
Child 11 F Bridget MorrisseyNB
Born: n.a. Île Bonaventure, Québec
Married 1: c. 1850 Percé, Québec3
Spouse 1: Elias (Élie LeBrun) Brown
Witnesses: John Kenny and John Lefollie
Married 2: 1864-Apr-05 Percé, Québec1
Spouse 2: John Morrissey [dispensation for second degree of consanguinity: bride and groom were first cousin]
Witnesses: François St. Amand and John LeCouteur
Died: 1891-Jan-22 Île Bonaventure, Québec
Buried: c. 1891-Jan-24 Île Bonaventure, Québec
Funeral: 1891-May-26 Île Bonaventure, Québec1
Witnesses: "almost all the inhabitants of Bonaventure Island"
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NBFirst, we have two daughters (Rosalie and Biddy Jane) whose births and baptisms are documented, but who disappear from the record. Second, we have two other daughters (Joanna and Bridget) whose marriages and deaths are recorded, but not their births and baptisms. The balance of probabilities suggests that Rosalie renamed herself either Joanna or Bridget and that Biddy Jane renamed herself either Bridget or Joanna. So far, nothing in the record helps to resolve this problem.
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Footnotes identifying Parish Registers:
A footnote identifies the parish register which contains the relevant act.
The absence of a footnote indicates that the information came from a secondary source.
1Registre de St-Michel de Percé: 1801-1941.
2Registre de Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola de Cap-Saint-Ignace: 1679-1876.
3Register of Christ Church (Anglican) of Percé: 18[2]4-1941.
Paul Maloney, Mississauga, Ontario, 2008.
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References:
Brochet, Aldo. Morisey Genealogy: 1821-1900. Unpublished Manuscript, 2003.
[Register of Christ Church (Anglican) of] Percé / Cape Cove: 18[2]4-1941. Longueuil, Québec: Diffusion généalogique Pepin [RN-CD169], 2003.
Registre paroissiaux de Saint-Ignace-de-Loyola [de Cap-Saint-Ignace], 1679-1876. Genealogical Society of Utah: Salt Lake, 1981. F[amily] H[istory] L[ibrary] US/CAN Film 1304967.
[Registre de Saint-Michel-de] Percé: 1801-1941. Longueuil, Québec: Diffusion généalogique Pepin [RN-CD45], 2003.
Réhel, Élaine. Répertoire des mariages de Gaspé Est: 1801-1941. Longueil, Québec: Les Éditions historiques et généalogiques Pepin [#236], 2003.
Réhel, Élaine. St-Michel de Percé: Répertoire baptêmes, mariages, décès 1801-2005. Percé, Québec, 2005.
Second Generation
Ellen Moloney
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The following is from "Folklore of the Morisay Family", in Aldo Brochet, Morisay Genealogy: 1821-1900 (unpublished manuscript):
The Story of Old Mammy Morrissey
(as told by Mr. John Edmund Paget (1902-1977) to Aldo Brochet, in a personal interview, 1977)
"Among the Islanders1 of the old generation at the close of the 19th century was the Widow Morisay. She was the widow of William Morisay2, who was the youngest son of Old Patrick3. She had been widowed a dozen years or more. She still lived alone on a rock. She had a house on a rock off the road and forgotten below the Paget lot. Born a Maloney, baptised Helena, also known as Ellen, she lived to a golden age.4
"She was invited by her Morisay relatives to one of the big family weddings which was well celebrated.5 The wedding concerned the whole family as well as the Aubert and Paget families6 and many guests; although when the woman appeared at the ceremony, some people invited to the church did not know her.
"People there began to marvel at her age. At these festivities, the wedding party commented too, marvelling on her great age. She was introduced to someone at the wedding as 'Old Mammy Morisay'.
"Annoyed at the sudden attention to her age, she replied with the proverbial wit of the Maloneys: 'Ah, yes, I goes back. I goes way, way back. I remembers . . . far, faaar back . . . I wuz' at the wedding . . . at Cana . . . How it went well . . . I stood behind the door'."7
Quoted with permission: © copyright Aldo Brochet, 2003, all rights reserved.
Paul Maloney, Mississauga, Ontario, 2006.
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1Bonaventure Island.
2William Morrissey (c. 1795-1865).
3Patrick Morrissey (c. 1756-1837).
4Helena (Hélène) "Ellen" Moloney (c. 1798-1892).
5Aldo Brochet comments: "The event seems to be the wedding [23 Oct] 1888 of John Aubert to Mary-Jane Morisay (1874-1895), a granddaughter of Helena Maloney." [Mary-Jane was the daughter of John Morrissey (1826-1896) and Bridget Morrissey (c. 1830-1891). Bridget Morrissey was the daughter of Ellen Maloney and William Morrissey. The record for the marriage (which required a "dispensation for consanguinity 2-3 and 3-4") can be found in [Registre de St. Michel de] Percé: 1801-1941. Longueuil, Québec: Diffusion généalogique Pepin [RN-CD45], 2003; Image 30630198 (Deux cent soixante treizième (verso) et Deux cent soixante quatorzième feuillets).]
6The groom, John Aubert, was the son of "the late" Jean Baptiste Aubert and Virginie Janes Paget, formerly of Bonaventure Island.
7Aldo Brochet comments: "Presumably, references to the woman's age ended here. The Gaspé idiom allows us to hear her sharp lucidity as she takes a point provided to her by the language of her listener, then stretches the credibility of her listener just a little by adding to her personal history a New Testament reference. (The event is the miracle of the wine, according to the Fourth Gospel: the turning of a large quantity of water into wine at a wedding feast (John 2:1-11). In the Essene version, the wedding is of Joshua to the Magdalene). The final [phrase], 'I stood behind the door', aptly explains to us why it is that Helena Maloney herself is not mentioned in the holy scripture!"
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