This is an uncharacteristic post for this blog: a non-genealogical bleg. On June 1, I will be walking with my sisters, a couple of aunts, a boatload of cousins, and other family and friends, to support care and treatment for…
Queries
Lawrence McCann, husband of Ann O’Reilly (Ireland to Canada)
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A reader is looking for more information on her 3x-great-grandfather Lawrence McCann, who emigrated to North America probably in the mid- to late-1830s. What little information I have is as follows: Lawrence McCann was born in Ireland about 1811. His…
Aside
A local chant, as told to me by my mother:
Perth! Perth! Get off the earth!
and let the green grass grow.
Smiths Falls! Smiths Falls! Get off the walls!
and let the pictures hang.
Perth = Perth, Lanark Co., Ontario. Smiths Falls is also in Lanark Co., Ontario.
Irish Records, Maps
Down Survey of Ireland 1656-58
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Via Deborah Large Fox, I’ve just discovered The Down Survey of Ireland 1656-58, a searchable, online mapping database with digitized images of all surviving Down survey maps from 1656 to 1658. From the project’s website (at Trinity College Dublin): Taken in…
Aside
How many Home Children have I come across in the 1891 and 1901 Canadian census returns, while searching for my ancestors and their collateral relations? 10? 15? 20? I’ve lost count. Many more than I had expected to find when I first began to pursue family history research.
Census Records, Home Children
James Fitzpatrick: Home Child
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Found in the household of John Rowan and his wife Emma Hogan (Emily Julia Hogan, daughter of John Hogan and Marcella Moran) in the 1891 census of Huntley township (Lanark North, Ontario): Jas. [James] Fitzpatrick, male, age 17, Dom. [Domestic],…
Fiction
Peter Behrens, The Law of Dreams
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Currently reading Peter Behrens’ The Law of Dreams, having recently finished his The O’Briens. So I’m doing things backwards (The Law of Dreams I should have read first): what else is new? I have to say, while his novel is of…