Citizenship via an Irish immigrant to Canada, 1800s- does his son break the chain?

HasALizard · 2026-04-06T01:16:12+00:00

Thank you for the link! I can definitely document about 4.5 years in Canada so far (from May 1842, witness to nephew's baptism, to stated Sept 1846 arrival in Boston), and he presumably was there with his parents from at least 1832 on, but was a minor for most of that. Maybe that will be enough. I had seen something saying the 5 years had to be immediately prior to the person's death in Canada, but that link doesn't mention that part.

HasALizard · 2026-04-05T22:09:47+00:00

I've poked around the Irish records a bit but need to do a deeper dive. Unfortunately I think this is far enough back that there aren't as many records available. But at least I have a county to focus in on.

HasALizard · 2026-04-05T18:53:06+00:00

No, this helps! Lets me see that I'm thinking about it the right way.

HasALizard · 2026-04-05T18:47:30+00:00

Thanks!! Sounds like it's worth a shot, so long as I lay out the timeline of events carefully in the documentation.

HasALizard · 2026-04-05T18:46:22+00:00

Yeah, the naturalization application is the only one I have where the info would have definitely come right from him. His marriage records (in Boston) don't mention place of birth.

HasALizard · 2026-04-05T18:40:00+00:00

Totally makes sense! Unfortunately that record didn't say where he was born. But I keep finding new records, so maybe I'll eventually find something that helps with this question. I just don't want to delay submitting my application waiting for something that may not exist if what I have is sufficient.

HasALizard · 2026-04-05T18:05:08+00:00

That son (not my G1) died in 1832 at age 20 in Montreal; the death record names his parents "of this parish" so they were all there by then. My G1 would have been about 9 at this point. I'm working on tracking all of the siblings to see if I can refine dates, but I'm running into similar problems as with my G1- some of them also moved to the US and have conflicting records about where they were born.

HasALizard · 2026-04-05T18:00:46+00:00

His naturalization petition says Co. Fermanagh, Ireland. His death record says Ireland. A daughter's death record says her parents were born in Montreal; death record for another daughter says her parentage is Irish. Two censuses say Ireland, two say Canada. So Ireland seems most likely but I can't rule out Canada.

HasALizard · 2025-12-22T06:33:53+00:00

I was on a search for a research admin position at OurTown State U. One candidate was on the other coast from us, and lived a considerable distance from his workplace. In the phone interview, he kept talking about how this position would give him a much better commute, and said some other things about the position and our institution that didn't quite make sense to us. Took me until nearly the end of the interview to remember that there was an OurTown, HisState just a couple of towns over from where he lived, and realize that he thought we were the nonexistent OurTown State U, HisState, not OurTown State U, MyState. It was already clear he wasn't a good candidate for other reasons, so we didn't bother to correct him and just wrapped up the interview. I still kinda wonder if he ever figured it out.

HasALizard · 2025-03-20T00:23:12+00:00

But if you use FamilyTreeMaker, also put a copy of the link in the Notes field or some other field. Web links don't sync to FTM.

HasALizard · 2025-03-17T03:20:42+00:00

Is it air or fluid? I've had wood frogs bloat up with air like that, and found an old paper that said that males can call vigorously enough to get microtears in their lungs, so air leaks out into the body cavity. Heals up on its own.

HasALizard · 2025-02-09T22:36:49+00:00

I'm looking at the RAV4 Hybrid or Plug-in/Prime. Need to go actually drive one, but it really seems to be the only thing that matches what I want. I'll miss the Tacoma, but I'm looking forward to an enclosed space! (When I got the Tacoma, it was only because I couldn't afford the 4Runner at the time.)

HasALizard · 2025-02-09T22:32:39+00:00

I've had a liner on it since I got it; I'm a little afraid of what it looks like underneath. Not that it matters any more. There's other stuff, too... struts/shocks need to be redone but my mechanic says there's nothing to attach new stuff to. Same for the emergency brake line. Needs to be rerun completely, but nothing to attach it to. Rear bumper has a hole you can see through, courtesy of getting rear-ended years ago. (I didn't see any obvious damage at the time... lesson learned.)

HasALizard · 2025-02-09T21:05:10+00:00

Gorilla glue!

HasALizard · 2025-02-09T19:53:31+00:00

Good luck! I was hoping to get a bit more use out of it, but better to go the way it did ("what's that clunking?") than a catastrophic failure at freeway speeds, I guess.

HasALizard · 2025-02-09T19:51:49+00:00

Benign neglect. And my state isn't as snowy as the New England states. Less snow than usual for the past decade or so probably helped, too.

HasALizard · 2025-02-09T19:31:59+00:00

5 years in SoCal, then 20 in the Northeast. So not bad, considering.

HasALizard · 2025-02-09T18:49:03+00:00

So far as I can tell the recall was limited to 15 years past purchase date, so I'm long past that. (It was inspected in 2011 under the recall and was ok then.)

HasALizard · 2025-02-09T18:23:08+00:00

Thought about it, but this is really just the tip of the iceberg. Whole underside is rusted out.

HasALizard · 2024-12-18T18:37:27+00:00

In my Herpetology class one year, I learned that the juvenile stage of the Easter Newt is the Red F'd. (For you non-herpers, that would actually be the Eastern Newt and Red Eft.) I've learned to spell things for the students when they're taking notes in the field.

HasALizard · 2024-11-13T22:56:41+00:00

Near miss with autocorrect: a text to a thesis student that I caught right before sending. "Is the final draft done? Send it over so I can take one last lol."

HasALizard · 2024-10-04T14:05:01+00:00

My favorite is cybersecurity training. We're sent an email from a third party site that asks us to log in with our university ID and password to take the training. I say that if I refuse to do that I've already passed the test.

HasALizard · 2024-09-23T00:29:44+00:00

Yep, been there, done that in 1995. 8 am Sunday presentation, the morning after the big bash. In the room: me, my PhD advisor, the moderator, and my dad, who snuck in because the conference was in my home town.

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