Irish Immigrants Dept: Marie Connolly was baptized at Notre Dame Cathedral Basilica in Ottawa in 1853, Chicago retiree-turned-historian Rick Barrett has concluded after thee years of research, according to CBC. Her family were Irish immigrants and her father worked as a butcher in what is now called the Byward Market and an amateur historian in Chicago thinks the first U.S. policewoman was born and raised in Ottawa. He found her birth certificate buried among stacks of paper locked in a vault in the church's basement. As
reported in the news.
@t rick barrett, amateur historian
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