William Loane (1806-1898) Irish Immigrant

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William Loane, b. ca. 1807, d. 19 May 1898 in Toronto, Canada

Spouse: Sarah Winnett, b. ca. 1809, d. 14 November 1870 (Married in Ireland)
    Father: Richard Winnett, b. ca. 1776 in Ireland, d. 16 April 1849 in Killaloe,
    Ireland
     Mother: Elinor Worrall

The grave stone pictured here is in the St. James Cemetery in Toronto, Canada. It marks the spot for William and Sarah as well as their son Edward and daughter Ann. There is a footstone at the base marked John Winnett, 1866-1950, husband of Elizabeth B. Winnett. Elizabeth, daughter of William and Sarah., was John's first cousin.

Children and grandchildren:

  1 Samuel Richard Loane, b. ca. 1830 in Ireland, m. Elizabeth Baker; 3 grandchildren

  2 William W. Loane, b. 1 February 1835 in Ireland, m. Hannah H. Purchase, 1859, d. 8 July
    1908; 2 grandchildren

  3 Ellen Loane, b. 24 January 1838 in Ireland, m. James Smith, 16 October 1862, d. 7 May
    1924; 5 grandchildren

  4 Elizabeth "Lizzie" B. Loane, b. 11 December 1838 in Ireland, m. John Edward Winnett,
    1859, d. 1915; 2 grandchildren

  5 Catherine Loane , b. 27 March 1841 in Ireland, m. Archibald Muir, d. 15 April 1934; 2
    grandchildren

  6 Edward Loane, b. ca. 1845 in Ireland, m. Mary Jane Lemon, d. 28 June 1870; 2 grandchildren

  7 Sarah Loane, b. ca. 1847 in Canada, m. Andrew Gilchrist (2), 24 May 1873; 5 grandchildren

  8 John Loane, b. March 1847 in Canada, d. 4 May 1847

  9 S. Anne Loane, b. 1849 in Canada, d. 26 May 1888

 10 Maude Mary Loane, b. 1854 in Canada, m. William Henry Elliott, 9 April 1874, d. 1941; 9
    grandchildren

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Historical Notes
     William and Sarah arrived in Canada with their 6 children between May1845 and Feb 1847. (First appears in a Toronto directory in 1846 on King St W) The journey, first by sailing vessel then by wagon, is said to have taken several weeks. It is likely they emigrated to avoid the civil uprisings and potato famine of their native Ireland. They were a Protestant family in a land of Catholics and may have suffered religious  intolerance. William was the policeman in the town of Killaloe which would have made him a target for terrorist groups trying to undermine the authority of the British.
     William immediately set up shop as a boot and shoemaker in Queen Street, East York. The following year (1846), Toronto directories list him in King Street where he seems to have remained until 1862. In this same year his daughter, Ellen, is named as his apprentice. William owned a farm (Lot 6 Concession 2, York Township) in the Woodbine area near Norway. Thomas Smith, father of James who would later marry Ellen, lived in the same area. Four more children were added to the family after their arrival in Canada.

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Derivation of Loane in Ireland
Oluam-I-O Loaine, O Loane, O'Loan, O'Lone, Loane, Lamb, Lambe; 'des. of luan' (warrior, champion); the name (1) of a Limerick family who were anciently lords of Deisbeg, now the barony of Small county, in the east of Co. Limerick, but have been long dispersed through Limerick, Cork and Derry; and (2)  of a Monaghan family, now dispersed through Ulster.  It is angl. O'Loan, Loane in the north of Ireland, but geneerally Lambe, by 'translation' in the south.
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Death wagons were used to haul away bodies during one of the worst famine years of 1847, a year after William and Sarah left Ireland for Canada.

The village of Skibbereen in County Cork, 1848.  A million people died of starvation and another million left for United States, Canada and Australia.

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