Marion,
Sorry you can’t find Connell’s book. It is fairly old (1950) and may not be
on-line anywhere. I think I found a copy in the Linenhall Library in
Belfast and photocopied a couple of dozen pages. The book looks at Ireland
as a whole and I am not sure if every custom reported there was
Friends,
This discussion is very interesting to me. Among other preoccupations, I’m a
researcher of European Anabaptists, as some of my ancestors were Mennonites in
Switzerland, Germany and France before emigrating to the US. The dominant
Catholic Church in France, for instance, didn’t
Hi Marion
I can't speak to what happened in Tyrone with your family but I grew up
in a Scot-Irish community in Canada and what you described of the
family, daughter and illegitimate child would be very typical of how
they would be treated in our community. In my family and neighbours they
Elwyn,
Many thanks for all the information and suggestions. I have been trying to
access the book you recommended , not very successfully, but I have found some
journal articles he wrote, so I shall be busy reading.
I was interested in the view that couples mostly selected each other , as I
Thanks for your insight and history lesson Elwyn; that must have been quite
some course of study you attended. Wonderful stuff,
Len Swindley
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