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               Firmitas in Cielo

              CLAN MCNAMARA

Seafarers, farmers,musicians, politicians..the range is as various as the colours of green in the Isle from which they arrived.
Our ancestor David McNamara left Ireland as a lad of fourteen years or so to the area around Boston , Massachusetts. An adventurer, he made his way to the wilds of Nova Scotia , Canada, to marry and raise a large family on an island now named for him and on which he is buried.
Nothing is known of his life before America, only tales that can grip the imagination, of a political nature that they are.
So we will carry on searching for those roots in the Emerald Isle and meanwhile follow his steps from Crossroads Country Harbour, Nova Scotia to present day. Perhaps we will reveal some facts previously unknown and increase the family to proportions of which it never dreamed.

David McNamara b. circa 1770, Ireland
married 1790 to Sarah Hall in Crossroads Country Harbour, Nova Scotia
d. at Isle Boucher , now known as McNamara's Island and is buried on the island.

Sarah and David had a relatively large family:

1)James, b.1792, at Halifax, Nova Scotia
d. 04/30/1867 at McNamara's Island
m. Catherine Power(d.04/27/1884)

2) John, b.1798 at Halifax
d. 04/13/1866 at River Inhabitants
m. Susan Proctor

3) Ellen, b.1799 at Halifax
d. 08/19/1867 at River Inhabitants
m. Patrick Cloake

4) David, b.1804 d. (unknown)
m. Elizabeth Power at Guysborough, Nova Scotia

5) Frances,b.(unknown)
d. (year unknown) at River Inhabitants
m. James Hayes

6) Sarah, b.(unknown) d. (unknown)
M. Ronald MacDonald

7)Maurice, b.1811 at Isle Boucher
d. 04/25/1876
m. Margaret Horn (no issue)
m. Eilleen Jane Burns 07/15/1859

8) Mary, b.(year unknown) at River Inhabitants
d. (year unknown) at Walkerville, N.S.
m. Thomas Scanlon 1873

My lineage in this family is with Maurice McNamara and thus the following generation.

Maurice McNamara, son of David and Sarah, b. 1811
d. 04/25/1876
m. Margaret Horn There was no issue from this union.
m. Eileen Jane Burns 07/15/1859

* Thomas William, b.05/09/1860
d. 1942
m. Annie Upton
m. Catherine Upton

* Bridget, b. 1862
d. (unknown)
m. Ronald MacDonald

* Sarah Ellen, b.01/12/1866 d. (unknown)
m. Angus Fortune 08/05/1889

*John James, b.11/18/1868 d.(unknown)
m. Eugenie Landry 01/12/1892

*Catherine Ann,b. 05/21/1872 d(unknown)
m. Peter Burge 04/20/1890
m. Samuel Collins 02/19.1898

*David, b.03/25/1878 possibly went to Rhode Island

*Charles, b.(unknown) d. in Halifax unknown date
M. Catherine A.
** Catherine remarried twice and had issue from both marriages

Thomas William McNamara
b. 05/09/1860
d. 1942 in Evanston, Nova Sctia
m. Annie Upton
one son of this marriage
John Gordon McNamara b.1887
m. Ethel ? from Hespelar , Ontario
d. Dec. 11, 1916   killed in action in France buried in Louez Cemetary

m. Catherine Upton
had one son Stanley Joseph McNamara
b.09/08/1891 d.06/1962
m. Esther Perry

Stanley Joseph McNamara
b. 09/08/1891
d. 02/23/1962
m. Mary Esther Perry

** Gordon Arthur
m. Margaret Hayes b.? d.?

**Charles Anthony
b.04/02/1925
m. Mary Theresa Cogswell 11/18/1946

**Catherine Marie b.07/25/1932
m. Gardiner Ryan 05/28/1949

**Joseph Freeman b.? d.?
m. (1) Mary Cogswell
m.(2) Margaret MacDonald

**Evangeline Agnita b.10/28/1936
m. Howard Cogswell 06/18/1957

Charles Anthony McNamara b.04/02/1925 m. Mary Theresa Cogswell 11/18/1946

*** Mary Rosina ,     b.02/23/1948
*** Yvonne Marie,    b.09/16/1949
*** Charles Patrick,   b.01/11/1951
*** Carol Ann,         b.01/30/1953
*** Gordon Gerard    b.09/03/1954
*** Catherine Louise   b.02/20/1957