The Church Service was at Nelson Street Church in Rochdale near Manchester in Lancashire. On one of our tours we did go through the suburbs of Manchester as we headed for Wales, or it was off in the distance. A number of the Knight families moved to Lancashire during the latter part of the 1800s for work likely. My own did not remaining in the south of England. My father did remember some of his uncles moving away in particular his grandmother Blake's brother who moved first to that area I think he said and then to Canada and he lived out west with his family. I have been in touch with a descendant. I must write to her again. The Service was very musical and modern I would say but that is the magic of these online services; the variety is huge and welcomed. I fitted that in when the Conference finished for the day. Another bonus of online Church. You never miss a service.
The Conference was really good. When I saw it was on Irish research I thought I really must try to remember to go (should be easy it is online) but somehow I forgot last year in the busyness so I printed out the Conference Schedule (rare for me to print anything) and put it on my desk to keep it front and centre in my mind. The last talk did generate a question on my part from a purely scientific point of view I was curious if there was any data on the frequency of Palatine (i.e. German/French) ethnicity in the Irish population. I hadn't quite anticipated his answer but it said to me that this group has maintained a sort of distinctiveness through the three hundred years since they arrived. It sort of fitted it to my thoughts on my great grandmother from whom I inherited my mtDNA which is mentioned on the Blood of the Isles database so thought to be ancient to the British Isles and located primarily in Argyllshire/Ayrshire. But I have this percentage of French/German that I simply can not really account for such a large amount if my Huguenots arrived in the 1400s (which they did into Devon) I would not see 20% for them; even my Charley family in Devon in the latter part of the 1700s did not really yield me an ancestress that would carry that much French/German to pass on to me. I inherited rather well from my great grandmother just because of the way that DNA splits. My siblings inherited Irish but I inherited French/German. So do I have a Palatinate ancestor? one wonders and will keep it on my plate to keep looking at. I have a sort of family line for Ellen Taylor and her husband has her born in Birmingham on the census. My grandmother said she was 37 when she died and that fits in with the birth of an Ellen Taylor to the Thomas Taylor and Ellen (Roberts) Taylor family in Birmingham. It has sat on the back burner for a very long time but matches have been coming in that are interesting and that led to my looking once again at that elusive Irish ancestry that my siblings have (mine is around 2% so not significant really). I bought eight certificates for Ellen Taylor born in Birmingham in that time period giving her an age between 32 and 43. Unless she was not registered in which case no ideas on that. Anyway an interesting pursuit ahead for me to follow up on in my spare time.
Lovely walk to the drug store and back; the fresh air is wonderful on a crisp October day; it was minus 4 degrees celsius. No snow yet but time will tell. The markers are in my laneway now to clear the snow when it does come.
Breakfast done and must do my Latin. Cleaning day, the basement is first.
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