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The Michael Barry Family of Levis, Quebec & Fort Kent, MaineUpdated September 5, 2000 | |
Peter Ralph Barry 416 Woodland Drive Whitewater,WI 53190 7600 | My great grandfather, Michael Barry (1812?-1888), left Limerick for Quebec in 1853 or 1854. He settled with his wife Mary Garvey in the city of Levis across the Saint Lawrence River from Quebec City. Mary Gravey had ten children. Only three survived into adulthood: 1. John (Jack) Barry (1850-1926) married Mary Dinan and after her death he married a widow, Mary (Kelly) Boyce, in Quebec City where he lived all his life. He was a railroad conductor, the owner of the Dufferin Hotel, a Canadian Militia sergeant, and a private detective during his long life. Unfortunately his wives and he never had any children to bear the Barry name. 2, Frederic Barry (1870-....) attended the secondary school at the College of Levis, as did his brothers. Then he disappeared sometime after his mother's death 1n 1878 and was never again heard from. 3. Thomas Barry (1857-1919) worked on several Canadian railroads including the Temiscouata which connected Quebec and New Brunswick. He married Elizabeth Fournier (1863?-1890) a school teacher from Fournierville Maine (near Madawaska). She had seven children: Geraldine, Alfred (my father), Gerald, Olive, Isabelle, Helene Blanche and Joseph. Her untimely death of cancer left Tom a widower in Riviere du Loup, Quebec. Within a year or so he had moved his family to Fort Kent, Maine,where he went to work on the Banfor &Aroostook Railroad. Within another year he had courted and married his sister-in-law, Modeste Fournier (1868-1937), who became the children's surrogate mother. Alfred Thomas Barry, "Fred (1892-1946), grew up in Fort Kent, and went to Saint Mary's College in Van Buren, Maine.He worked briefly for the Bangor & Aroostook before entering an apprentice program to train as pharmacist. When world War I intervened he enlisted with several other "boys" from Fort Kent and served overseas in France with a hospital unit of the Amereican Expeditionary Forces. He opened a pharmacy in Fort Kent after the war. And by the late twenties he met and married Henrietta "Etta" Losier a native of Tracadie, New Brunswick, and then the chair of the department of domestic studies (Home Economics) in the consolidated high school of Edmundston, New Brunswick. She Had two sons Peter (1931- present) and Arthur (1933-1990). Can anyone contribute information about the Irish origins of this family? Does nayone know what happened to Frederic? Doe you have any interesting anecdotes and tales about the members of any of the family? I would appreciate letters from anyone with a knowlege of any members of the family from its origins to the present. |