At the moment there is little information about Owen McCarthy and Johanna Hannan. Both are fairly common Irish surnames with slightly variable spelling. From records its possible to say that they were resident in Halifax and Dartmouth in Nova Scotia between 1848 and 1850 as two daughters, Eliza (1849) and Catherine (1850) were baptised at St Peter's Catholic Church in Dartmouth.Â
The only other currently found reference for this family is at the baptism of their grandchild, John Francis Fanning at St Patrick's Church in Toronto in 1884. Joannah McCarthy is named as a godparent.