The Lucan Murders

A FAIR HISTORY OF THE MURDERED FAMILY

[...] James Donnelly, the head of the household, settled in Biddulph in 1847, his family at that time consisting of a wife and two boys, James and William. He took up a hundred acres of land, worked hard, and by 1855 he had his farm pretty well cleared. In the meantime the remainder of his children were born, viz., Patrick, John, Michael, Robert, Thomas, and Jennie. [...]