Spotting the Inghams in 1931 census

The release of the 1931 Canadian census this month has given me a chance to take a closer look at how my grandparents Emily and Thomas Ingham were doing in the Dirty Thirties. Above: 23 Manning Street in St. Catharines in 2007 when I took my mom over to visit it. She was living in …

Exciting news about the Spencers in the 1931 census

Photo above: This snip shows Garnet J. Spencer with wife Margaret and the children. R is for renting, 35 is for the monthly rent, A is for apartment, B is for brick, 5 is for number of rooms, and YES is for they own a radio! The weird world of family history nerds has been …

In an Irish garden: Margaret & Joseph Spencer

Above: Kiltennel Church, photographed by John Nagle. The historic Kiltennel church above was once the setting for the wedding of my great-great-grandparents Margaret and Joseph Spencer. On September 2, 1871, they were married here, in Courtown, County Wexford, Ireland. Kiltennel was built in the 1770s, and miraculously still stands. Since I have no photo of …