Hello: Does anyone know if there are any surviving Obituaries from Nepean Twp. (Fallowfield) for about 1851) I'm looking for Michael Deevy. Thanks for any direction. Bonnie

You have asked about Michael Deevy of the Fallowfield aea and any early obituary records. I believe I responded "off the top of my head" to your query in the OBN in 1992, giving you some information on the family which lived on Conc. 6, Nepean. You also enquired at that time about the name "Davy or Davie, or Deevy" and a relationship with the Kinch family. I now have my "Deevy" family file in front of me. The 1842 census shows the family of Michael Davie living in Nepean township, 2 of them born in Ireland, 6 in Canada, all attached to Church of England. Land records indicate that "Michal Devoy" of Nepean bought the NW half of Lot 30, Conc. 6 Nepean in 1831. The family lived on the town line between Goulbourn and Nepean, and would have probably been attached to the Church of England in Richmond in 1831 and maybe later to Bells Corners C of E. From members of the "Deevy" family I learned that his wife was Sarah Kinch. The 1851 census shows him as "Michael Davy, farmer, born Ireland, R. C. age 76", living with wife Sarah and children Michael, Elizabeth and Fanny This second son Michael; (born 1841 baptised in Richmond C of E), who married Anna Rivington of Huntley.(C of E), also had a son "Andrew Michael Deevy" born in Huntley Twp in 1864. John, the older son of Michael Deevy and Sarah Kinch, married Mary Foley, and it is their descendants who are buried in Fallowfield R. C. Church. The 1861 census shows his wife "Sara Devy, b Ireland, C of England, age 65", on the property, with son Michael, age 18. Her husband presumably died before 1861, but where they are buried my Deevy family contact did not know. The Bytown Gazette would have been the most likely newspaper in which the obituary would appear, but I did not find such an entry. I hope this information is helpful. Doris Hope