Catherine Quinlisk b. 1821 Ireland

The 1851 census was not taken until 1852.................

There we find Denis Hobbins age 39, Patrick Hobbins age 13, and Martin Hobbins age 9 listed but no wife or mother.

On the second page, which it took me a couple years to discover, Denis is listed as a widower,
and a female in the house that died in 1851 at the age of 35.

Other information is the boys attended school and they lived in a one floor shanty.

I realized that Ellen Loughnane must be his second wife who he married in Canada and she is not the mother of Patrick and Martin but is for the rest of the children!

So Ellen and Dennis must have been married between 1852 and 1853 as Catherine was born in 1854. I have not yet found a record. There doesn't seem to be any records for this time period.

The other children; John, born 1849 and Margaret born 1851 and Patrick born 1854 I discovered in research that Ellen was previously married a Michael Heenan and he is the father of these children, even though they are listed as Hobbins in the 1861 Cda Census.




Nov 2009
The Church Baptism Record for Patrick shows a Catherine Quinlisk as mother. The records for this area seem to start about 1827,