52 Ancestors: Week 7: Valentine

52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks was created by Amy Johnson Crow and is a series of weekly blogging prompts to inspire genealogists and family historians to write about an ancestor and then share it online. The theme for Week 7 is "Valentine".

While researching the members of the First Sandwich South Council (1893), I came across something interesting about the son of one of the Councillors who was born on Valentine's day 1890.


In 1890, A young boy was born on Valentine's day to Edward J. and Alice Ann (Holden) O'Neil in Essex County and he was named Roy Valentine O'Neil.