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From: "Linda Maitland" <>
Subject: RE: [Montreal-Irish] Re: Marriage in Quebec
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:54:59 -0700
In-Reply-To: <sf40f0bf.047@gwsmtp.ohsu.edu>


Hi Valerie,

I have a marriage repertoire for St. Patrick's in Quebec City. If you tell
me their names, I can look and see if their marriage is included in that
repertoire.

Linda Maguire Maitland
White Rock (Vancouver), BC



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Valerie Ackroyd [mailto:]
> Sent: August 18, 2003 3:29 PM
> To:
> Subject: [Montreal-Irish] Re: Marriage in Quebec
>
>
> Is there some kind of central registry of marriages for the
> province? My grandparents were married in 1910 but the faded
> newspaper clipping I have doesn't mention the city. Whoever saved
> the clipping just cut the little square announcement out and
> didn't include the newspaper name or even the date although the
> DID write 1910 in the corner. All I know is that they were
> married in St. Patricks and the Norwegian consul, a Mr. Frank
> Gunn, gave my grandmother away.
>
> I know there's a St. Patrick's in Montreal but there is also one
> in Quebec City. I don't know which city my grandparents lived in
> in 1910. I know that they were in Joliette by 1912 but
> grandfather moved around a lot while he worked for the Grand
> Trunk Railway (later CP). After Joliette they went to Toronto for
> a couple of years and then went back to Montreal for the rest of
> their lives. BTW, my grandmother was president of the Quebec
> chapter of the CWL and the CWL was really helpful to me a few
> years ago with information about her.
>
> Anyway, if anyone can give me ideas on how to figure out which
> city they were married in, I'd appreciate it!
>
> Valerie Ackroyd
>
>
>

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