Beaver Beacon explains Ray Denny’s “Duke of Donegal Bay” nickname, 1988

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Event

Date: 1988-06
Kind: Occurrence
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: historyIndigenous eraheritagefamilycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The June 1988 Beaver Beacon explains Ray Denny’s “Duke of Donegal Bay” nickname through a reported family connection to King Strang. Denny recognized names and images in the Print Shop Museum as matching family materials and then confirmed his great-aunt’s maiden name as Strang.

Evidence limits

This is a family-history account in a newspaper. The reported descent and relationships require genealogical and archival verification and are not treated here as independently established.

Sources

“Who Is Called the Duke of Donegal Bay?,” Beaver Beacon, June 1988.
Reports Ray Denny’s discovery of a family connection through his great-aunt Anna Strang, descendants of William James Strang, and family photographs and scrapbooks. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, June 1988, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held twenty-page June issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Beacon explains Ray Denny’s “Duke of Donegal Bay” nickname, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-ray-denny-duke-of-donegal-bay-genealogy-1988/, accessed [date], citing “Who Is Called the Duke of Donegal Bay?,” Beaver Beacon, June 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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