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From: Nicole Gareau <>
Subject: Re: [Montreal-Irish] Searching for information on NicholasRoach and his wife Sarah White, Montreal
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:13:11 -0500
In-Reply-To: <423419.86228.qm@web83005.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


You will find your relatives buried in Plot 00262, Section H on the
Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery website - happy hunting!

Roach William Henry Concession #00262 H 17/04/1918

Here is the link: http://www.cimetierenddn.org/en/services/necrologie

Nicole Gareau


-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of JACK MCKINNON
Sent: March 8, 2008 2:54 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [Montreal-Irish] Searching for information on Nicholas Roach
and his wife Sarah White, Montreal

mike i have also seen it spelled another way in the
drouin records roche, i have roaches and roches in my
family from quebec city they were married to brennans
also in quebec city. probably no connection just a
point of info on the spelling. jack mckinnon---
Michael Roach <> wrote:

>
> My Great-Great Grandfather Nicholas Roach and his
> wife Sara White are believed to have come from
> Ireland. I have been able to find records of some of
> their children who were born in Montreal starting in
> 1852 with the birth of my grandfather William Henry
> Roach, but I have not been able to find where they
> were married or when and where the rest of their
> children were born before they arrived in Montreal.
> (They appear to have had 8 children, five of whom
> were born in Montreal as per St. Patrick's
> records.)
>
> What I have found out about Nicholas and Sara;
>
> 1. Nicholas died in Montreal in 1879
>
> 2. Sara died in Montreal in 1909
>
> 3. St Patrick records indicate that Nicholas
> was a shoe maker
>
> 4. Lovell's City directory for Montreal
> indicate that Nicholas and Sara lived at 153
> Wellington St. In 1857,58,59,60
>
> 5. Mrs. Sara Roach, widow of Nicholas was
> shown in the Lovell's directory to live at 75
> Colbourne in 1879 & 1880
>
> 6. Some of the records at St. Patrick's
> indicate that the spelling of the name was Roache,
> while others show up as Roach.
>
> 7. Have not been able to find Nicholas & Sara
> on any census records but I have been able to find
> William Henry and family on the 1891 and 1911 census
> records.
>
> 8. Sara White had a brother Patrick (Who was a
> Taylor) He also lived in Montreal.
>
> Does anyone have any other ideas on places to look
> in for information on Sara & Nicholas? I seem to
> have hit a brick wall at this point. My father was
> left as an orphan at the age of 13 and died in 1969,
> so I have limited information from that source.
>
>
>
> Michael Roach
>
> Ottawa, On
>
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