We are not sure where John Gibson and Mary Walsh (sometimes spelled Welsh) came from, but they must have married sometime about 1830 in Ireland, proabbly in Co. Waterford. Their first child Michael was born in Ireland in about 1831, according to census and burial information. They came sometime soon after. The second child, John, was born in December 1837, and baptized in Beauport. Then came the following children:
Thomas, Nov 1839, Mary, 1843 (no document found), then Helen or Ellen, born in 1844, died the same year. Another Ellen was born April 1849.
There are know descendants for Michael, John, Mary and Ellen, and they are found in the Ottawa area, Chicago, Hampden (Massachusets). The two sisters, Mary and Ellen moved to the Ottawa area. One child has no descendant, as all members of the family died in a tragic avalanche on Champlain Street, on February 3, 1875. He had married a relative of my ancestor, Mary Margaret O'Brien, who died with their 4 children: http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/3600821
There is another Gibson branch which is probably related, but I am still working on how to demonstrate it. A document from "archives notariales du Québec" from 1875 seems to indicate a relationship, and also the fact that bith families lived in SBDL for while. This branch descend from John Ginson and Mary O'Sullivan, from Co. Waterford, and the only known child to come to Canada, Michael, who could well be the brother of John Gibson, who married Mary Welch. He married Mary O'Connell (once referred to as O'Connor) in 1829, and then Mary Tierney, of SBDL, in 1840. Five children were born from Michael, and 3 with know descendants, all in the USA.
The couple married in Ireland, and had at least one child born there. They appear in the 1851 census.
Michael died young, after his widow, Margaret Fardy married Patrick Phelan/Whelan and had many descendants who all died in SBDL or the Quebec City area. Their only child died in Chicago with his wife, but not much else is know of this line
This family suffered a tragic destiny as mentioned above. Mary Margaret O'Brien is the granddaughter of my first know ancestor, Edmond O'Brien
Thomas moved to the USA, via Buffalo, sometime in the 1860's, and eventually to Massachusetts, where he married a second time with Margaret Hogan abt 1881. He was living in Boston when his first wife died. Many descendants lived and married in the Holyoke area. He was listed as roofer in the 1880 and 1900 census. Margaret Hogan came from St-Sylvestre, Lotbinière, from an Irish family as well (Patrick and Mary McGinley)
Mary married John Hickey, a musician, and she moved in Ottawa sometime after his death in 1876, with her children, along with her sister Helen/Ellen. Mary Ann Edith married a Carroll from the Ottawa area, not the same family as the one in SBDL.
Ellen moved to Ottawa in the 1870's, and may have some descendants in the area, with the Mahon and Nevins families. Only one child seems to have married from the 3 sisters who married.
Third generation
