Continued from Christmas Songs of My Ancestors: Native American
My 3x-great-grandfather migrated from Ireland to Canada sometime before 1835,
which was when his oldest child was born in Nova Scotia. This child, my
great-great-grandfather, "followed the sea" as they used to say, and ended up as a Master Mariner on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, where he lived the rest of his life after meeting and marrying my great-great-grandmother.
Carul Loch Garman (The Wexford Carol) is a traditional Irish Christmas carol, with origins dating back to the 1400 or 1500s.
7 comments:
Beautiful! RHill, TX
so beautiful. real calming to me. I love celtic music. Especially at Christmas time!
As I am continuing my project to write research notes on all my ancestors, I am now back to my 3rd great grandparents and several of those lines have immigrants for parents, including Ireland. I hope to do some digging into my Irish roots, which I have done extremely little up until this point.
I agree!
I know, I just love it. I think it Celtic music stirs something up in my DNA. :)
Ed, I hope you have better luck than I have. But then, you do some amazing sleuthing. My problem is that this guy had a very common name, "Edward Kennedy," and that ship's passenger lists at the time were extremely vague. Dozens of Edward Kennedys migrated to North America in the early 1800s. At this point, I need some good clues, but I haven't found them yet.
What a lovely idea, to share these songs of your ancestry. My paternal grandparents were Irish immigrants.
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