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Old Posted Mar 24, 2018, 11:49 PM
Docere Docere is offline
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^ Fascinating.

Yeah it's pretty obvious Irish ancestry was undercounted then. Catholic is a good proxy for Irish origin in Newfoundland.

Even today you have about reporting 20-25% Irish origin and 35% Catholic - certainly the majority of that 10-15% would have some Irish ancestry.
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