The muddling happened here as well. Most of my great grandparents would never have met in the UK, except the Irish Catholic lot, but they settled in the same district and married someone from the same village in Ireland, Probably knew each other from back home.
The next generation had the mixing of Irish Catholic and Irish Protestant which did not go down so well with both sets of parents.
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When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were
and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells
(Marcel Proust)
Christine
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