This imported genealogy was rife with potential errors and inconsistencies. The entire family and tree, which had been copied several times on various gen sites, was based mostly on the 1851 Canadian census
https://search.ancestry.ca/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1061&h=1590590&tid=&pid=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=lVK3&_phstart=successSource (Year: 1851; Census Place: Pakenham, Lanark County, Canada West (Ontario); Schedule: A; Roll: C_11732; Page: 25; Line: 9. Listing: D. Shanahan, 45, born circa 1807, Ireland, wife: A. Shanahan 48, Children: Rosana Shanahan 26, and R. 24, C.19, W.16, and D. Shanahan 14), which after some searching, was found to reference Dennis Shanahan and wife Abigail Green, (this turned out to be a totally different family in the Perth, Lanark region of Ottawa, Ontario).
A whole list of children had to be redacted from Daniel's imported list. There are still some children, whose birth and death are questionable. Daniel's obituary from 1902, gleaned from Ancestry, indicates that at his death, he left 2 sons and 2 daughters, which leaves a couple of children too many.
Shanahan seemed to have been a quite popular Irish monicker, similar to Smith. It seemed that every attempt to research, was met with more and more Daniel or Dennis Shanahan, which all had similarities and differences. The wife's name was also listed as Margaret or Catherine, depending on the source. He may have been twice married, once to Anne Margaret Hogan, and once to Catherine Margaret Harrigan.
One thing is certain, the family lived in the Strathroy-Caradoc, Middlesex region of Ontario (1871-81) before moving to Michigan.
Some of the children's sources and reference documents, such as death certificates list parents as Dennis Shanahan and Catherine Harrigan. Were these the same people, whose names had simply been mistranscribed in a clerical error?
There were also two different death registries for the wife Catherine Shanahan. One showing her dying in 1888, and one dying in 1897. The 1897 one listed her as a widow at her death, so couldn't possibly be Daniel's wife, as he was still alive, and listed as widowed, living with his son Dennis in 1900.
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