Maloney, Mitchell, McNamara, Toronto area, Can. before 1885

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History of Toronto and County of York, Ontario
by G. Mercer Adam, Charles Pelham Mulvany
Toronto: C. B. Robinson, 1885

Township of York (west)
p. 228
"Thomas Kingsley, proprietor of market-garden on Cinnamon Street, lot 33, concession 2, West York, was born in County Wexford, Ireland, and came to Toronto in 1840. He was for twenty-seven years employed in farming with George Cooper. He first bought two acres of land and afterwards added six more, making in all eight acres, and carried on a regular market-garden. He married in 1851 Miss Helen Maloney, a native of County Clare, Ireland ; they have one son and five daughters, all living, viz.: Edward, Lizzie, Katie, Hellen, Mary and Annie."

City of Toronto, York Co.
p. 494
"John Mitchell, proprietor of livery, sales and boarding stables, 16 and 18 Duke Street, is a native of Clare County, Ireland, and came to Canada with his parents when very young. His father died of cholera soon after his arrival here in 1832. Mr. Mitchell, during his long residence in the city, has in turns adopted other branches of business besides the one he is at present engaged in, having been in the grocery and also hotel line. He commenced as livery stable proprietor in 1855, and has done a continuous business for nineteen years. He owns from twenty to thirty horses, and does a large trade."

also note:
p. 229
Township of York (west)
"John Mcnamara, farmer and market-gardener, was born near Galway, Ireland. He came out to Canada in 1848, and settled in this county, where he has been engaged in the above business since his advent. He cultivates about thirty acres of land, and employs, according to the season, from five to twenty hands, and markets his goods fresh in the city daily. He married in 1864 Elizabeth Clarke, a native of England, who came out in 1858, the issue of this union was ten children of whom four sons and four daughters are living."

Found in passing (no relation to me),
Sharon Carberry