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From: "Ron Dale" <>
Subject: Re: [Montreal-Irish] Non Catholic Irish
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:12:01 -0400
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There is a very easy explanation. The Deckers had settled in Phllipsburg so
Joseph and Sophia were doing something that was extremely common--having the
children baptised in the wife's former parish, no doubt with her relatives
present.

It is likely as simple as that.

Ron

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Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [Montreal-Irish] Non Catholic Irish

> Hi Listmakes: My 4th great grandparents, Joseph Kelly & Sophia Decker
> were
> married 24 Nov. 1811 in a Church of England church in St. Armand West,
> which
> is Philipsburg, Quebec, Canada. Children born in 1814, 1816 and 1818 were
> baptised in the Philipsburg Angelican Church and baptism records
> indicated the
> parents were from Montreal. The last six were baptised in the Stanbridge
> Angelican Church. My question is, would people living in Montreal have
> their
> children baptised in Phillipsburg and Stanbridge instead of Montreal? Or
> was
> Montreal mostly catholic Irish? Also, in census records they are shown as
> Methodist and not Angelican. This seems so confusing to me. I don't know
> anything
> about Joseph Kelly's family or where they were from. I can only guess
> that
> they were Irish and since Sophia was born in 1797 Joseph must have been
> born
> around then too. I have not yet viewed census records for 1841 because I
> am not
> sure what part of Montreal to look. Most of my family research has been
> in
> Missisquoi Co, Qc.prior to finding Kelly's in the family. I have looked
> for
> the Kelly surname in Montreal indexes and see that there are dozens of
> families
> with that surname. I hope that some one on this list can give me a better
> feel as to where the non Catholic Irish might have settled prior to 1811.
> Sophia and her parents were Methodist and prior to moving to Canada the
> Decker
> family was from New York and attended the Linlithgo Reformed Church,
> Livingston. I don't know yet what religion that would have been. Were
> many of the non
> Catholic Irish Methodist? For some reason I was thinking they might
> mostly be
> Lutheran.
> Sandy Williams
>
>
>
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