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But which Catherine Stack and Tom Collins?

January 12, 2020January 12, 2020 Lina GoldbergIreland, Kerry1 Comment on But which Catherine Stack and Tom Collins?

In the 1800s in rural Ireland, people weren’t about to get creative with their children’s names. They drew on a very small number of popular names when baptizing their children, often using an Irish naming convention that named the children after their parents and older siblings. It’s not uncommon to…

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Based in Glasgow. Obsessively researching family history in the Russian Empire, Italy, Ireland, United Kingdom and beyond.

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