William Gallagher Sr. (born 1773 in Ireland, and died 07 Oct 1854 in Bastard, Leeds, ON, Canada) married Alice Welsh 1810 in Ireland. She was born 1790 in Ireland, and died 09 Jan 1884 in Harlem, Bastard, Leeds, ON, Canada. He arrived in the Harlem area in 1822. Son Thomas arrived in 1829. Others from his family arrived in 1831, including sons James and William Jr., and probably Alice. Both James and William were able to receive land grants on adjacent lots in 1841.

Children of William Gallagher and Alice Welsh are:

• 1. Thomas GALLAGHER, born 10 Jan 1810 in Clogher, Tyrone, Northern Ireland; died 22 Dec 1901 in Bathurst, Ontario, Canada. He married Ellen HARPER 23 Sep 1833 in N. Burgess, Ontario, Canada, daughter of Joseph Harper and Mary BOYLE.  She was born 14 Jan 1810 in Cootehill, Cavan, Ireland, and died 04 Oct 1897 in Fallbrook, Ontario, Canada.
  
  The story of Thomas Gallagher was found at http://www.rootsweb.com/~onlanark/families/harper_family1.htm.
  
  "Ellen Harper was the third daughter of Joseph and Mary (Boyle) Harper. On September 3,1833 she married an Irishman, Thomas Gallagher.
  
  He was one of at least seven children born in the house still known as Fardross. They lived there in their youth and that is where their mother died. This estate has been in the possession of the Glodstanes for generations. How it was in the possession of the Gallagher family for years is not known. They were possibly charged a small rent to care for the place when the owners did not come to Ireland for a period of years. The family was apparently quite prosperous, as the sons received a much better education than the majority of young men of their day. Two of the sons, James and John, remained in Ireland and some of their descendants are still there. Thomas came to the Perth Settlement in 1829, when 19 years of age.
  
  After their marriage they seem to have lived for a time in Burgess, but soon moved to a farm in Bathurst on the Tay River, a few miles above Perth. Here they began to make a home for themselves, though Thomas was never a successful farmer, nor an expert axe-man, a skill which was very much needed in the clearing of forest land. He seemed to have been expert around the small grist and sawmills of the day and his education made him useful also in the office management of these little enterprises.
  
  A good measure of success attended the efforts of the young couple and their growing family for several years, until they were driven from their home and lost the fruits of their labor. It is not possible at this time to know the whole story of the disaster that was too common in the early settlement of the country. Land was granted by the Government and at times purchased without careful survey of titles.
  
  The occupants of certain farms in the Perth Settlement found that their titles were irregular. Some had the opportunity of re-purchase at reasonable rates and others had not. Apparently, Thomas had not. Fraud, incompetence and neglect had each a share in the condition but, in every case, the settler was the sufferer. The earnings and the hard labor of the family were all gone. It was an awful blow and one of which they hardly ever spoke. There was a story of neighborly kindness when this happened. The indignant settlers came to the Gallagher's and said, "We want you to go to a neighbor's house and do not come out, nor ask any questions, nor know anything that is going on". Then, from all about, came the men with their oxen, pulled down the log house, moved it across the river to a new site and there rebuilt it and soon the little home was ready again for the family.
  
  They had eight children:
  
  • Thomas (August 20, 1834 - December 1, 1856)
  • John (January 29, 1836 - December 1, 1856)
  • Harriet (July 5, 1838 - April 14, 1880) - married James Brown.
  • Ephraim (March 22, 1840 - September 7, 1858)
  • William (May 28, 184? - June 4, 1917) - after the death of his brothers, he had to assume much of the burden of the farm, though he was quite young at the time. He never married.
  • Joshua Adams Gallagher (July 16, 1844 - October 7, 1917) - married Margaret Linto
    012768-07 (Lanark Co.) Joshua Adam GALLAGHER, 55, laborer, Bathurst, Fallbrook, s/o Thomas GALLAGHER and Ellen HARPER, married Sarah M. FOTHERINGHAM, 39, widow), Drummond, Drummond, d/o James K. DRAPER and Hannah IRWIN, witn: Mrs. S.A. BROWN and Ethel G. BROWN, both of Carleton Place, 13 Nov 1907 at Carleton Place
    • Frederick Harper Gallagher was born in Bathurst Twp. Jan. 19, 1878 - reg. 14257.
    • Myrtle Gallagher, born c. 1885
      11929-08 (Lanark Co) John W. GIBSON, 33, farmer, Westport, Fallbrook, s/o David GIBSON & Betsy WARREN, married Myrtle GALLAGHER, 23, housekeeper at home, Fallbrook, same, d/o Joshua Adams GALLAGHER & Margaret LINTON, witn: Edith ELLIOTT & Addie BRUNT both of Lanark, 1 Apr 1908 at the Village of Lanark
  • James Joseph Gallagher (July 12, 1846 - January 22, 1928) - married Margaret Robinson .

  The Lanark Era, Feb. 15, 1928 - "Estavan, SK, Mon. Jan. 22nd, 1928, James Gallagher, aged 82 years. He was born at Fallbrook a son of the late Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Gallagher. He leaves his wife, two sons and three daughters; Wm. T. Gallagher of Estavan; Ephraim H. of Stoney Mountain, MB; Ella (Mrs. S Campbell) of Moose Jaw, SK; Minnie (Mrs. R. Liddle) of Francis, SK; and Edna (Mrs T. Hagen) of Syracuse, NY."

  • Henry Deacon Gallagher (August 16, 1851 - May 5, 1909) - married Ida Holmes and lived in Brockville.

  There was no farm, but the father was not tied to the land as other settlers and, were it not for anxiety about his growing family, he might have continued in other employment. When his older sons almost reached manhood, he rented a farm in the rear of Bathurst. The family, however, had to pass through greater sorrows than the loss of property.

  The two older sons, Thomas and John, aged 22 and 20 years, were drowned together in the Mississippi River on December 1, 1856.

  Bathurst Courier, December 12, 1856
  "On the morning of Monday, 1st inst., a most melancholy accident occurred. While two young men, Thomas and John Gallagher, sons of Thomas Gallather of Bathurst, were walking on the ice out on the Mississippi River, the ice gave way beneath them and they were plunged into the cold stream and drowned. It appears that they were crossing a bay on the river where the ice generally is worse than in other places. The cap of John Gallather and an axe he was carrying were found several yards from the hold in the ice from where they broke in from which it is inferred that his brother Thomas must have broken into the ice first and that he laid his cap and axe on the ice and ran to assist his brother out and then broke or slipped in himself. Both being then in the water with their winter clothing on and no one present to help them, the day extremely cold and the water colder, they perished. They were on their way to Mr. Charles’ and were not to be home until the following Saturday and consequently were not missed for a whole week. The bodies were both lifted out of he water last Sunday they appeared when taken out of the water just as fresh as when they had gone down the week before. The water was about 14 feet where they were drowned. They were two young men who were well liked and much loved by their parents who bitterly deplore the sad and untimely end that snatched away in the prime of their lives their two sons. Thomas was 22 years of age and John was 20 being the eldest and second eldest sons of Mr. Gallagher. The funeral took place on Tuesday the 9th inst., and was the largest we have ever seen in Perth for a long time."

  The rented farm lay on this stream and the two sons, perhaps not thoroughly acquainted with the river, broke through the ice. Both were strong swimmers and had broken much ice in their efforts to get out. No one could hear their cries and at last they sank exhausted. Nearly two years later, their next son, Ephraim, died after a long illness on September 7, 1858. Their deaths almost killed the mother and indeed she never fully recovered, though she lived to be a very old woman.

  Later, Thomas bought a farm near the little village of Fallbrook, about a mile distant from the one he had rented but he continued to find employment elsewhere. He was a man six feet two inches in height, who never worried, never had a headache, never missed a meal and never had a severe accident and so, at a great age was able to boast that he had never had a spoonful of medicine from a doctor.

  Ellen (Harper) Gallagher died in Fallbrook, near Perth, on October 3,1897, when she was 87 years and nine months old (burial: Playfair Cemetery, Fallbrook). Her husband, Thomas, died four years later on December 22, 1901, when he was nearly 92 years.

  Mary Ann (Nancy) Harper, born in Ireland on October 2, 1811, was the fourth daughter of Joseph and Mary (Boyle) Harper. She married Henry Sleigh (Sly) from South Crosby, on March 12,1835. They had one daughter, Mary Jane Sleigh (December 17, 1836 - July 14, 1910). "

• 2. William Gallagher, born 13 Jun 1813 in Wexford, Ireland; died 18 Mar 1897 in Bastard, Leeds, Ontario, Canada. William Gallagher Jr. and his wife Elizabeth Jane Hannah (d. Dec. 9 1895, aged 72) had ten children, and their property left the family by the 1880s. Resided near the village of Harlem Ontario, then moved to Portland and then to Newboro. Buried Harlem United Cemetery.
  
  • John Gallagher, born c. 1842
  • James T. Gallagher, born September 1, 1845
    005413-74 James T. GALLAGHER, 27, Merchant, Canada, Newboro, s/o William GALLAGHER & Jane HANNAH; married Sarah WILTSE, 18 [born Feb. 13, 1856], Canada, Farmersville, d/o John & Loretta WILTSE; witn Irwin WILTSE & Sarah KINCAID, both Farmersville, 6 Apr 1874, Brockville
    • Ada Gallagher born c.1876
    • Ida L. Gallagher, born June 2, 1881
    • Sophie M. Gallagher, born March 31, 1885
      12381-1908 (Leeds Co) Benjamin Tett, 28, Chemist of Minerology, Bedford Mills Frontenac Co., Midland Ont., s/o John Poole TETT & Harriet Ida HOPKINS, married Effie May Gallagher, 24, Newboro, same, d/o James T. GALLAGHER & Sarah WILTSE, witn: Arthur H. TETT, Ida GALLAGHER, both of Newboro. 24 Jun 1908, Home of Bride's Father- Newboro
    • Rae Gallagher, born April 17, 1890, died 1951; wife of Stanley L. Heath
  • William, born c. 1846
  • Hannah Gallagher, died Oct 13 1851, age 3. Buried Harlem United Cemetery.
  • Eliza Jane, born c. 1850 [This may the the Eliza J. Gallagher, wife of J.M. Sheffield buried at Harlem United Cemetery, died January 3, 1876, aged 24 years, 9 months, 21 says.]
  • Josiah Gallagher , born c. 1858
    006238-1883 (Leeds Co) Josiah GALLAGHER, 25, Merchant, Bastard, Toledo, s/o William & Jane GALLAGHER, married Emma KINCAID, 24, Farmersville, same, d/o Archibald & Esther Ann KINCAID, witn: Herbert KINCAID, Kitty KINCAID, Farmersville,  5 Feb 1883 Farmersville
  • Mary A. Gallagher, born May 28, 1859, died February 23, 1933 (reg. 020919), buried Crosby ON.
    #005954-82 (Leeds Co): Chalmers SINGLETON, 25, farmer, South Crosby, same, s/o John & Sarah, married Mary A. GALLAGHER, 22, Bastard, same, d/o William & Jane, witnesses were Robert GALLAGHER of Newboro & Hattie SINGLETON of S. Crosby, 27 Dec 1882 at Bastard
    • Lena May Singleton, born May 19 1885, Reg 017884.
• 3. Catherine Gallagher, born 1814 in Ireland; died 10 Mar 1891 in Bastard, Leeds, Ontario, Canada. Married Jonas Brown in 1891.
  • Mary Ann Brown
    04634-75 Joseph McDONALD, 35, Farmer, South Burgess, Portland, s/o Thomas & Mary McDONALD; married Mary Ann BROWN, 26, Bastard, Bastard, d/o Jonas BROWN & Catharine GALLAGHER; witn J.T. GALLAGHER & Sarah GALLAGHER, both Newboro, 20 Jan 1875, Newboro
  • Albert Brown
    #005641-80 Albert BROWN, 23, farmer, Bastard Twp, Long Point, s/o Jones BROWN & Catherine GALLAGHER, married Margaret Hudson, 26, Pittsburgh Twp, Seeley's Bay, d/o John HUDSON & Mary GREEN, 28 Apr 1880 at Seeley's Bay
• 4. James Gallagher, born 1818 in Castlebar, Mayo, Ireland; died 20 Dec 1895 in Harlem, Bastard, Leeds, Ontario, Canada. After James died in 1895, his home passed to his wife, the former Margaret Sides (Jan. 17, 1828 - Jan. 31 1907, Harlem). After Margaret's death, the home passed to Elijah Gallagher (2.10.1858-8.14.1906)and his wife Lucy Flora Alberta Gile (4.18.1871-4.3.1908), and then on their son Truman Gile Gallagher (9.13.1901-3.14.1973) and his wife Lena Pearl Guttridge (1903-2001). As of 1985, James' grandson Earle Gallagher owned the house. Buried Harlem United Cemetery.
  • William F. (H?) Gallagher, born Sp. 6, 1848, died July 18 1916
  • John S. Gallagher, born c.1848
    vol 12 pg 296 ; John S?. GALLAGHER, 21, farmer, Bastard, same, s/o James & Margaret, married Beulah CHAMBERLAIN, 19, Bastard, same, d/o Leonard & Lucy Ann, witn: James GALLAGHER & Leonard CHAMBERLAIN, both of Bastard, 1 Feb 1871 at Bastard.
    Beulah Chanberlain, died November 17, 1878, aged 26.
  • James L. Gallagher, born December 23, 1850
    007093-73 James L. GALLAGHER, 22, Farmer, Bastard Twp, Bastard, s/o James & Margaret GALLAGHER; married Ellen PARKER, 21, Bastard, Kitley, d/o Robert & Jane PARKER; witn John S. GALLAGHER, Bastard & John LEGGETT, South Crosby, 31 Dec 1873, Kitley.
    Ellen Parker 1852 - 1927. Buried Harlem United Cemetery.
    • Mildred Adams 1880 - 1979. Buried Harlem United Cemetery.
  • Albert I. Gallagher, Sept. 16 1852 - Feb. 11 1940
    Albert became a prosperous businessman in Portand. Albert was also responsible for building Portland's first bank and two adjacent brick buildings. Albert and his wife, Emma Miller (Feb. 2 1858 - April 22 1943), built a large house in Portland overlooking Big Rideau Lake from West Water Street on a lot that they purchased in 1895. The Gallagher wharf and warehouse lay to the right of the house. Buried Harlem United Cemetery.
    • Albert and Emma had a daughter, Mabel, who was married in 1904, and lived in the house after James and Emma died, until 1969.
  • Alice Isobel Gallagher, born June 7, 1854, died August 14, 1898, Wilton, Ernestown Twp.
    4736-75 James Davy, 24, Farmer, Ernesttown, same, s/o John & Margaret, married Alice Gallagher, 20, Bastard, same, d/o James & Margaret. Witn Franklin HANNA & Agnes HANNA, both of Bastard, on 21 Dec., 1875, at Bastard.
  • Catherine (Caroline) Gallagher, 1856-1934 Camden East. Married James Skinner.
  • Elijah E. Gallagher, born Feb. 10, 1859, died Aug. 14 1906. His wife Lucy F. A. Gile, born May 18 1871, died April 3 1908. Buried Harlem United Cemetery.
    • Laela Gallagher, born Dec. 15 1894.
      011717-1917 (Leeds Co) Lorne Craig Emmons, 30, Widower, Cheese Maker, Harlem, Newboro, s/o Morton EMMONS & Mary WATTS, married Lela GALLAGHER, 23, Harlem, same, d/o Elijah GALLAGHER & Lucy GILE (sic), witn: S. Alice RICHARDSON, Mrs. J.G. GILES, both of Brockville. 5 Dec 1917 Brockville.
      Buried Harlem United Cemetery
    • Florence A. Gallagher, born May 13 1896, July 2 1975. Buried Harlem United Cemetery.
    • James Earl Gallagher, born Oct. 17 1898, killed in action July 23 1916. Buried Harlem United Cemetery.
    • Truman Gile Gallagher (9.13.1901 Portland - 3.14.1973 Brockville) and his wife Lena Pearl Guttridge (1903-1.24.2001). Buried Harlem United Cemetery.
  • Margaret (Maggie) Gallagher, May 27 1860 - 1940
  • Levi Gallagher, born c.1861
  • Aaron Gallagher, born c.1864
• 5. Alice Gallagher, born 1823 in Bastard Tsp, Ontario, Canada; died in Bastard, Leeds, Ontario, Canada. Married Peter Grew, born c. 1819. Alice's family settled in Portland/Harlem area of Bastard Twp. in 1822.
  • Lucinda Adelaide Grue, married Martin Douglas Brayman in Brockville July 1, 1875. had 10 chdn, 8 boys &  2 girls: Maud, Herbert, Harvey, William, Millard, George,Frederick, Percy, Adelbert Franklin & Ethel. Grandfath George BRAYMAN worked in Athens area as cheese maker before heading west to Moosejaw Sask ca 1905-1910. 5 of the brothers served in WWI, 2 serving for the Canadian Expeditionary Force & 3 serving with United States.
  • Mary A. Grew, born c. 1840.
  • Malinda Grew, born c. 1840.
  • Mose_ Grew, born c. 1847.
  • James Grew, born c. 1850.
• 6. Mary S Gallagher, born 1826 in Bastard Tsp, Ontario, Canada.
• 7. Jane Gallagher, born 1833 in Bastard Tsp, Ontario, Canada, died after 1851.
• 8. Rebecca Gallagher, born 1836 in Bastard Tsp, Ontario, Canada; died 12 Feb 1916 in Toledo, Leeds, Ontario, Canada. She married John Edward Johnson; born 18327; died 23 Mar 1904 in Toledo, Leeds, Ontario, Canada.