Happy St. Patrick's Day to all those like me who have Irish ancestry. #stpatricksday '#irishancestry

At midnight on November 2nd, we enter All Souls’ Day—a time when the veil between the living and the dead is thin. Tradition says our departed loved ones draw near. In Irish custom, offerings are left: water to soothe, food to nourish, a candle to guide, and salt to bless their path. Tonight, I honour my Irish ancestry by carrying on this tradition. #allsoulsday
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If you have specialist knowledge in or access to sources of information I have not yet tapped, be it in military records around Carleton Island or related to British artificers in the early 1790s, Irish records, Quebec records that might yield new information, I would LOVE to hear from you.

Thanks for reading if you got this far!

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I have always been a keen genealogist and had success in tracing the family history of my maternal grandmother, born in USA but from a long line of Québécois – thanks to the meticulous record keeping of the notaries of Quebec and the Quebec Catholic Church.

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#onthisday, 10 July 1858, my Great Great Grandmother on my father's side of the family was born and today marks the 160th anniversary of her birth.
Her name was Eliza or Elizabeth Powderley. (I am not entirely sure which as she was registered at birth and christened as Eliza but has appeared as a mix of Eliza and Elizabeth on census records, married as Elizabeth and registered at death as Elizabeth).
This was her christening record which appears in Latin as she was a Roman Catholic born in Liverpool, England with family that came over from Ireland in the 1850s.
After my Great Great Grandfather James Thorpe died in 1901, she married again to a James Betteney and I have a strong suspicion that he holds the key to unlocking the brick wall we have hit in discovering more about James Thorpe's parentage.
I believe Eliza came to know of James Betteney before marriage through the Thorpe family - just need that one document to prove my theory.
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