Murderous Tuesday: Black Donnellys
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
January 22, 2019 11:15am CST
Chances are you've heard of a t.v. show or movie by the same name. However, this was the actual occurrence that sparked the t.v. show.
A family of Irish Immigrants were murdered in Canada in February of 1880. Their farm was also burned down. It appears that a feud was what inevitably got them killed. Wikipedia calls the feud "The Biddulph Feud" but it also states that it did not begin in Canada. The feud had begun many years before in Ireland. As an aside, apparently the eldest Donnelly was a squatter on their new land in Canada, which presumably didn't help matters.
You can read the link I have attached to learn more about the feud, about the legal action took to remove the Donelly's from the land etc.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
22 Jan 19
The man of the house might have done some things to deserve retribution, but nobody deserves to die. I can't help but think about the man's family, the ones who had nothing to do with any feud.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
22 Jan 19
@CarolDM There are some stories that I am listening to on youtube? That I will not watch without someone with me. Some I still won't watch. Even these murder cases I look up? I don't always read more, it depends on what I've read.
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@CarolDM (203396)
• Nashville, Tennessee
22 Jan 19
@ScribbledAdNauseum Some of these stories really stay with me, I have to pick and choose the ones to watch.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
23 Jan 19
Way before any of our time, actually. Happened in the late 1800's.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
22 Jan 19
Almost like a Hatfield and Mccoys minus the love interest.
@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
22 Jan 19
We actually studied the family in our history class... I didn't know that it was a TV show... must have come on when we left the country!
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
22 Jan 19
I'd never heard of it until today. Was this part of a Canadian History class or just general history?
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
22 Jan 19
I guess it is an example of what can happen when there is greed in the world. Greed and fear.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
22 Jan 19
You can't say that anymore as you have certainly heard of it now.
