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Cullen Family History
and Genealogy
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 1879 - 1947 (68 years)
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| Name |
Patrick Keiran McClements |
| Born |
09 Jul 1879 |
Buckingham Township, Quebec  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
17 Aug 1947 |
Buckingham, Quebec [2] |
| Buried |
19 Aug 1947 |
St. Gregory of Naziance, Buckingham, Quebec |
| Notes |
- Note from Mark Cullen. In 1998, my father told about the McClements sisters' effort to get brides for their brothers Albert and Patrick. Mary, Lucy and Bea had advertised in England for mail-order-brides. As a result, Annette Little and Mary Ryan arrived in Ottawa. How they decided who would get whom my father did not recall. In any event, Annette married Albert and Mary got Patrick. These were depression years and the Alberts were installed in Ottawa while Mary went to the farm in Buckingham. Arthur Daley got Albert a job as a street conductor.
Pat's farm on Range 7, Lot 8, was the site of feldspar mining activity in the 1930s and 1940s. Pat earned compensation from the mining companies. Up to 1935, many pits were dug resulting in the discovery of high quality feldspar. From 1935 to 1942, several attempts were made to recover the feldspar in commercial quantity, but the operation was difficult because the pegmatite rock ore was multi-fractured and stained with iron oxide. In total, about 500 tons of feldspar were shipped to the U.S.
My father recalls seeing the lead and quartz mine. It was of those partridge hunting times with his father. There was a road to the "back field" where they grew hay every year and stored it in a barn there. There was a branch road leading up a valley between hills to the mine sites. The quartz mine was a large pit and at that time full of water. It hadn't been used since WWII. His understanding was that it was operated by outsiders on a percentage basis. He doubts any McClements were involved. The same for the lead vein which was visible in a trench-like cut into the rock face. It was also reachable by the same road. Spar and quartz mines were quite numerous in the area and probably more accessible. The operation on Joe's farm was very small scale.
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| Person ID |
I702 |
Cullen family tree |
| Last Modified |
12 Nov 2021 |
| Father |
James McClements, b. 25 Apr 1841, Buckingham Township, Canada East , d. 10 Oct 1919, Ottawa, Ontario (Age 78 years) |
| Mother |
Julia Carroll, b. 19 Feb 1848, Denholm Township, Canada East , d. 28 Oct 1917, Buckingham, Quebec (Age 69 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1873 |
| Family ID |
F1112 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Photos
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 | James McClements family
Back: Tom Powers, Albert, Wilfrid & Pat McClements, Barney Cullen Front: Bea McClements, Eileen Powers, Mary & Julia McClements c1915 |
 | Pat, Mary & John McClements, Florence Storey, Joe McClements c1915
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 | Lucy, Mary, Pat & Kathleen McClements c1931
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 | Pat McClements & Lawrence Cullen (far right) and McClements cousins c1924
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 | McClements, Patrick
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| Histories |
 | McClements Children
Brief biographical sketches, photos and newspaper announcements of James and Julia McClements' 10 children.Excerpt from The Cullens of Templeton A Two Hundred Year Journey, Mark Cullen, 2010, Chapter 6, pp 158-182 |
 | McClements Photo Gallery
Photos of the McClements family. Excerpt from The Cullens of Templeton A Two Hundred Year Journey, Mark Cullen, 2010, Chapter 6, pp 183-193 |
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| Sources |
- [S57] Ancestry.ca Drouin Collection.
- [S10] Ottawa Citizen, Aug 18 1947.
- [S99] Tres Sainte Redempteur Hull mariages 1902-1985 SGO 1987, 161.
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