Wearing of the Irish green!

 My Irish roots may be somewhat Scottish...with more Mc and Mac in their names.

But today I'm going to go as far back as any from Dublin might go. This is about Thomas Pascall  my 10th great grandfather. I have the first record of him as the father of Mary, by his wife Ann.

The record is actually of Mary's baptism, and lists Thomas as a cordwinder. 

A cordwinder knows how to make ropes, a technique which industrialization made no longer necessary. It is not to be confused with cordwainer, which is a shoe-maker. Here's a video (sound is in Spanish) which pretty well shows the use of hemp to make rope cordage, with English subtitles.

The birth  of Mary Pascall was sometime before she was christened on Jan 28, 1684.  That record still exists in the church of St. Michans, in Dublin Ireland.

St. Michan's Church is a Church of Ireland church located in Church Street, Dublin, Ireland. The first Christian chapel on this site dated from 1095, and operated as a Catholic church until the Reformation. The current church dates from 1686, and has served Church of Ireland parishioners in Dublin for more than 300 years.

Built on the site of an early Norse chapel from 1095, the current structure dates largely from a reconstruction undertaken under William Robinson in 1686, but is still the only parish church on the north side of the Liffey surviving from a Viking foundation.

While the exterior of the church may be unimpressive, the interior boasts some fine woodwork, and an organ (dated 1724) on which Handel is said to have composed his Messiah.

 Source: Wikepedia

St. Michans Church, Dublin Ireland, a Church of Ireland.

This church is not to be confused with the Catholic church of St. Michans, built in the 19th century also  in Dublin.

Cemetery of St. Michans Church, Dublin, Ireland

Since Thomas and Ann had perhaps two daughters who were baptized, it can be assumed that Thomas Pascall was born sometime in the 1660s. We only have the baptism date for Mary in 1684.

I have no information on the family of origin of his wife Ann Pascall.

Mary Paschall Kennan, their daughter, married John Kennan, who had been born in 1682.  

 

I became a bit irritated by the Ancestry records which other members have posted, from a Quaker record, stating Mary Paschall had drowned and was buried in the 5th month on the 10th day, in 1710. They then used May 10, 1710 as her death date. That is incorrect. In 1710 all of the calendars in Ireland and all the Great Britain possessions, used March 1 as the first of the year. Thus 5th month would be July. However, there's little likelihood that Mary Pascall was a Quaker, having been baptized (probably as a protestant) as well as having a burial record from St. Catherine's Church in Dublin Ireland (see below.) And the record of the Quaker Mary uses Paschall as her surname, not Kennan. If she had been Quaker, that is possible. But my leanings are that she was Church of Ireland...a protestant denomination.

St. Catherine's Church, on Thomas Street, in Dublin, Ireland, was originally built in 1185. It is located on what was once termed the "Slí Mhór" (Irish: Great Way), a key route that ran westwards across Ireland from Dublin. The church was rebuilt in its present form in the 18th century by John Smyth (or Smith).

St. Catherine's, Thomas St., Dublin Ireland

In 1177, the parish of St. James is mentioned as part of the Augustinian abbey of St. Thomas (from which Thomas Street got its name), and the church of St. Catherine was a chapel-of-ease to the abbey. By the end of the 13th century, the western suburbs had so increased in population that a separate parish was deemed necessary. This was provided for by splitting the parish of St. James and setting up an independent parish for St. Catherine's.

Both parishes were still subservient to the Abbey of St. Thomas, but in 1539 the abbey was dissolved with all the monasteries by Henry VIII. In the surrender made by Henry Duffe, last Abbot, were included "the Churches of St. Catherine and St. James near Dublin". Both churches, now independent, had new curates appointed by the crown... Over the following hundred years, both churches passed over to the reformed church, while Roman Catholic priests led a precarious existence tending to the larger part of the population, which remained faithful to the old religion.

The parish of St. Catherine appears to have been the only viable one in the area at that time — Roman Catholics eventually got the use of a chapel in Dirty Lane (now Bridgefoot Street) towards the end of the 17th century. Later, another St. Catherine's was founded in Meath Street to cater for the Catholic population.

The two Church of Ireland parishes were separated in 1710.

The churchyard and cemetery lie to the rear of St. Catherine's. Originally dating to 1552, burials ceased in 1894. The cemetery is now a small public park. There is a plot which was provided by the Protestant Orphan Society for the burial of orphans, in the churchyard.

Source: Wikipedia

And for the rest of my generations from Thomas and Ann Pascall

Their daughter Mary Paschall Kennan (1684-1710) married John Kennan (1682-aft. 1736)

Their son Thomas Kennan (1706-1740) m. Marry Bell Kennan (1706-1754) 

Their daughter Christian Kennan McNeal (1721-?) m. Malcolm (John M.) McNeal (1720-1783)

Their son Robert McNeall (1741-1843) m. Jane Baker McNeall (1741-1818) and immigrated to the United States.

Their daughter Elizabeth Clark McNeal McElhany (1768-1849) m. William McElhany (1766-1815)

Their daughter Jane McElhaney Booth (1794-1833) m. Isaac B. Booth Jr (1795-1836)

Their son William Lewis Booth (1818-1894) m. (his 2nd) Hanna Conn Booth (1819-1885)

Their son Richard R. Booth (1846-1879) m. Eugenia Almeta Whitty Booth (1852-1875)

Their daughter Eugenia Almeta Booth Miller (1873-1936) m. Charles Herman Miller (1868-1946)

Their daughter Mozelle Booth Miller Webb Munhall (1897-1960) m. (her 1st) Albert James (Bud) Webb (1891-1919)

Their daughter M M Webb Rogers (1917-2003) m. G E Rogers Jr (1914-1985)

They were my parents.