Patrick & Julia Farrell
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Patrick & Julia FarrellEntry/Object ID
P2000-01-14-105Description
Patrick & Julia Farrell. On many occasions, they went by the surname O'Farrell, and are recorded as such in the 1881 Canadian Census Born in Ireland in 1806, married Julia Donahue in 1832 and they came to Grimsby in the late 1840s. A stone mason by trade, he built many of Grimsby's fine structures, several of which survive to this day. In the 1940's the Grimsby Independent championed him as being "the best stone mason there ever was in this district." [Nov 26, 1942] In 1857 he did all the mason work on the first Grimsby Town Hall and High School at the corner of Adelaide St and Depot. [ Which was torn down and the lot used for the construction of the Carnegie Library in 1912] Farrell constructed residences such as the Whittaker homestead, which still stands at 421 Elizabeth Street, and a stone house said to be the best stone house in the district that was on the west side of Elizabeth street, just north of the railway tracks but torn down for the "improvements" of installing the service roads adjacent to the QEW. Julia was born in 1812 at County Longford, Ireland and predeceased Partick by almost twenty years, passing in Grimsby on 26 Jan 1882. Her burial site is unknown- expected to have been in St Joseph's cemetery Resided on Elizabeth Street, lot 9, Concession1 with son Edric in 1899 (age 92). He died September 24, 1900 and is buried in Queens Lawn Cemetery.Category
Photos - Peo/Fam - Burgess, Whittaker