Between the years of 1832 - 1937, all immigrants to Canada arriving by ship were first detained on Grosse Ile, Quebec - inn the middle of the St Lawrence River, past Quebec City. This is where they were quarantined - many died, but many moved on after their quarantine period to begin a new life in Canada.
Many of the immigrants were from Ireland, and many died when a typhoid epidemic hit in 1847.
The island is now a Parks Canada site, preserved to commemorate the thousands of people who passed through.
Grosse Ile & the Irish Memorial
We would like to thank Bea (Rockburn) for all her help on the Dancey side. We also would like to thank Christine Daughtry (our long lost second cousin, we recently found, for her research on the Helem side.
I am also very grateful to our newly found 3rd cousin Brenda who gives me the encouragement & has a wealth of knowledge in Genealogy research. Brenda is like a walking archive - only more fun. Without her we wouldn't have found all of our wonderful Dancy cousins: Barb, Marlyn, Pattie, Anita & Eunice & of course Myrtle Dancy - the sweetest Dancy I know.
And - thank you to all my Morley relatives. We were long lost but no longer - you guys are going to get sick of me bugging you all the time !!!!!! We'll have to get some Scottish music going !
An acknowledgement too for a hoped for future section. Thank you to my great-aunt Mana Kidd, who researched the Johnston & Malloy side over in Ireland and wrote a book. Unfortunately, she passed on & we haven't been able to locate her research - but we'll keep trying.)
NOTE: Future editions of this page will include cousins