FRANCIS JOSEPH O'BRIEN

We have talked about James O'Brien and siblings.

In 1919, James and Francis bought a lot in the St-Patrick cemetary,

 

 on what was then called Cape Rouge Road

Les ut talk about his younger brother Francis "Frank" Joseph, who  seems to have followed in his footsteps closely. As mentioned before, he was also at the CPR, working as messenger in 1911, aged 21.
As many Irish, he found work at the infamous Ross Rifles factory during the war.
 

For more on the problems and scandal of the Ross Rifles, see ROSS RIFLES

After the war, it also started working as a telegrapher, and in 1922, he was mentioned as the President of the Quebec City branch of theTelegraphers' Union. It would appear that Francis continued to live on Champlain street until his death, in the 1950's.

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Let us look briefly at Francis' wife, Mildred Rose McLauglin Leonard. She is related as we can see to the now famous Wexford House establishment on Champlain street, which is now the Hayden Wexford  Bed & Breakfast.
HAYDENWEXFORD

Mildred's great grand father was the first owner of this inn.

Mildred was 3 years younger than her husband, and also hailed from the Champlain Ward area. Her father James was also a dockworker, or a stevedore (STEVEDORE), like the O'Brien's. In 1911, they lived at 424 Champlain, in the Cap Blanc area.
Her mother was Elizabeth O'Leary, born in Ste-Foy/Sillery (église St-Colomb). The families on her mother's side (Elizabeth Connolly), also came in Canada before the famine, from county Monaghan (Connolly and Curran). On her father's side, the O'Leary or Leary and O'Neil came from county Kerry.