James Finnerty

1851 - 1921  (70 years)

• Name	James Finnerty
  Nickname	Jim
  Born	01 Mar 1851	McNab township, Renfrew Co., Ontario
  Christened	05 May 1851	Mount St. Patrick, Brougham township, Renfrew Co., Ontario   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Godparents	Patk [Nash?] and Mary Ryan
  Occupation	Shantyman; Labourer
  Religion	Roman Catholic
  Cause of Death	Drowning
  Died	Apr 1921	Arnprior, McNab township, Renfrew Co., Ontario   [2]
  	Burial record: "...we, the undersigned priest, blessed the remains of James Finnerty aged sixty-nine years, husband of Bridget Benton of this parish, who was drowned most probably about five weeks ago." Body interred in "the new cemetery."
  Burial Witnesses	13 May 1921
  	John Mulvihill and John Byrne
  Buried	13 May 1921	Arnprior, McNab township, Renfrew Co., Ontario   [3]
  Person ID	I932	Moran
  Last Modified	15 Apr 2025

  
  

  Father	Peter Finnerty,   b. 1810, Co. Kerry, Ireland ,   d. 08 Jun 1900, St. Patrick's Orphanage and Asylum, Ottawa  (Age 90 years)
  Mother	Anne Havey,   b. About 1815, Co. Sligo, Ireland ,   d. 8 Jun 1868, Arnprior, McNab township, Renfrew Co., Ontario  (Age ~ 53 years)
  Married	11 Aug 1843	Notre Dame, Quebec City, Québec
  Family ID	F270	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Bridget Ellen Benton,   b. Feb 1861, Pakenham, Lanark Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 08 Dec 1940, Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 79 years)
  Married	23 April 1888	St. John Chrysostom, Arnprior, Renfrew Co., Ontario
  Witnesses	J.P. O'Farrell and Phoebe McGregor
  Children	1. Emmett Patrick Finnerty,   b. Jul 1887, Misericordia Hospital, Ottawa ,   d. 28 Mar 1944, Montreal, Quebec  (Age ~ 56 years)   2. John Albert Finnerty,   b. 27 Sep 1889, Arnprior, McNab township, Renfrew Co., Ontario ,   d. 16 Nov 1889, Arnprior, McNab township, Renfrew Co., Ontario  (Age 0 years)   3. Mary Teresa Finnerty,   b. 17 Feb 1891, Arnprior, McNab township, Renfrew Co., Ontario   4. Catherine Finnerty,   b. Oct 1892, Arnprior, McNab township, Renfrew Co., Ontario ,   d. 09 Nov 1893, Arnprior, McNab township, Renfrew Co., Ontario  (Age ~ 1 years)   5. James Finnerty,   b. 10 Apr 1894, Arnprior, McNab township, Renfrew Co., Ontario ,   d. 11 July 1894, Arnprior, McNab township, Renfrew Co., Ontario  (Age 0 years)   6. Louisa Finnerty,   b. 10 March 1895,   d. 2 Jun 1960, Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 65 years)   7. Thomas J. Finnerty,   b. 02 Nov 1896, Arnprior, McNab township, Renfrew Co., Ontario ,   d. 5 Feb 1962, Ottawa, Carleton Co., Ontario, Canada  (Age 65 years)   8. Margaret Henrietta Finnerty,   b. 19 Dec 1898, Arnprior, McNab township, Renfrew Co., Ontario + 9. Patrick Grattan Finnerty,   b. 17 June 1900, Arnprior, McNab township, Renfrew Co., Ontario ,   d. 1957  (Age 56 years)   10. Hugh Francis Finnerty,   b. 18 Feb 1902, Arnprior, McNab township, Renfrew Co., Ontario ,   d. 16 May 1941, Ontario Hospital, Kingston  (Age 39 years)   11. Anne Genevieve Finnerty,   b. 4 April 1906, Arnprior, McNab township, Renfrew Co., Ontario
  Histories		Lumberman Ancestors Many of our ancestors, both Irish and French Canadian, worked in the lumber trade.
  Last Modified	31 Jan 2011
  Family ID	F266	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Newspaper		James Finnerty Was Great Teller [of] Stories Ottawa Citizen, 6 October 1928
  		"The Good Old Days;" John Quilty remembers "an old and tried friend," James Finnerty of Arnprior In a letter to the Ottawa Journal, May 23, 1921, p. 6

  
  

  Obituary » Slide Show		Finnerty's Body Found in Ottawa River The Ottawa Journal, 11 May 1921
  		James Finnerty Drowned The Ottawa Citizen, 11 May 1921
  		In Loving Memory of James Finnerty The Ottawa Citizen, 10 May 1922 Mrs. H.S. Coleman = Mary Teresa Finnerty, wife of Harold Stanley Coleman
  		In Loving Memory of James Finnerty The Ottawa Citizen, 10 May 1923

  
  

• Sources

  [S197] Register of St. Patrick's, Mount St. Patrick/Dacre. [S85] Ontario Deaths. [S93] Register of St. John Chrysostom, Arnprior.