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Orkney / Re: Matilda Clouston Irving
« on: Wednesday 24 February 21 23:25 GMT (UK)  »
You know—my brain didn’t register the parish wasn’t Catholic. I have so many Catholic ancestors in Protestant nations...good point!!!!!

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Orkney / Re: Matilda Clouston Irving
« on: Wednesday 24 February 21 16:01 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you, @whiteout for your information!
Are you related or just helping out?

Matilda Irving won't show up in the later censuses b/c her family emigrated to Ontario
when she was a child (early 1840s). I never really paid much attention to that and always wondered how a Shelton from north of London hooked up with a maid from Orkney, which as remote as you can get. Well, they met in Canada!

I cannot wait for our 2024 trip to the UK. Easy tour to plan by myself and hopefully hit some "this is where my ancestors lived" spots on the way.

Thank you to others with the paid sites who have found the actual images to back everything up. I can still see the name Irvine/Irving in Orkney today, but it isn't common. I would think there are more Irvings/Irvines near where the Clan Castle is? (was reading up more about it this past week).


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Orkney / Re: Matilda Clouston Irving
« on: Wednesday 24 February 21 15:52 GMT (UK)  »
Hi there!
I am excited b/c we are most likely related!
We might even be matched DNA-wise on Ancestry, but I don't know your name, so...

Matilda's other daughter Margaret (Maggie) is my great-grandmother. So our ancestors were sisters.
I even have a photo of of Matilda and two of the daughters (not Maggie). One is Anne.

Clouston shows up as a last name in baptismal records that I bought from Sandwick last night. I also wonder if it is a Confirmation type middle name? Matilda did not show up in those baptismal records as I had hoped, but other last names (Garson, Irvine/Irving) showed up that are probably extended relatives/ancestors who stayed in Orkney.

I would love to chat more--I live less than 4 hrs from ancestral locations in Canada (in Michigan). I wish the border would open. We had a 2020 trip planned down toward Lake Erie and also Waterloo County for research!

Melissa Hogan
(not my real name. My great-grandfather changed his name when he left Quebec and went to Ontario. He met my great-grandmother Margaret Shelton there. My family has had all this information recorded in a huge notebook since the 1970s).

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