Hi members.
We live around the world: what is obvious to one member is 'deer in the
headlights' to another.I challenge members to say if the following Canadian
towns are within 'marriageable distance' to each other in the 1800's!
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, Spuzzum, Skookumchuk.
Let's enjoy our differences, learn about each other's geography and not put
down people who make location mistakes!
Thank you all for your patience. Peggy in BC Canada
**********Member post?However, I am often perplexed by the placenames given in
these family histories, usually written by the descendants of the emigres who
do not really know Ireland and its geography or society. One, for example
gives their home as Antrim, Co Tyrone. And this one gives a marriage of
someone from Carrickfergus to someone else from Strabane, opposite ends of
Ulster. With no form of transport except Shank's Mare, they did not travel much
more than a few miles from home in their entire lives. It was mainly clergymen
or the very rich who could make such distant connections so I suppose that has
to be the explanation, if there has not been an error.Thanks. ****************
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