Family History Trip Scotland Part I

 

Family History Trip to Ireland Part II

On Friday morning Rick and I and Trent and Kathy drove out to a beautiful area on the eastern coast to a little town called Killinchy to attend a breadmakiing class.  Darla and Larry were supposed to come along but Darla woke up feeling very sick with vertigo and needed to stay back and get to a doctor. (This vertigo would stay with her throughout the whole trip with some days better than others and really affected her ability to do certain things.)

Anyhow, we drove to Tracey's Farmhouse Kitchen for a fun morning cooking up different types of Irish bread. 

The farmhouse was in this cute little thatched house that was originally built back in the 1600's.

Tracy was our cooking instructor.  She welcomed us with some bratton bread and herbal tea.

After that we got our hands dirty making up bread.  We made three types of bread.

Traditional Irish Soda Bread, Wheaton Bread and Potato Bread.

She also showed us how to make a focaccia bread with the soda bread recipe.

This was really an enjoyable experience being in someone's home and interacting with other people learning something new.  We all loved it!

After cooking up the bread we were able to sit and eat up the bread and even have a little cream cake alongside the bread:)

After our time in Killenchy we drove north to Belfast.  We got to go into the famous St. George's Market.  It is an old market that's been running on that sight since 1604.  It had food, crafts, antiques, and more!

It was a super fun way to start our day in the city and to find some fun souvenirs AND some delicious food!

Rick in a cute Irish hat...

When Rick saw this Al Parmesan booth he knew exactly what he was having for lunch.

It was cool to watch the vendors make his mac and cheese by scraping a pile of cheese on the big cheese wheel, add hot noodles and then a hot white sauce with bacon and mix it all together.  It was so rich and cheesy.  I had two bites and that was enough for me!  He LOVED it!

I ended up having a most delicious ham and cheese crepe.  MMMmmm it was good!

This man was making a breakfast sandwich and I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw how big it was!

He had a bun on the bottom, then sliced two sausages and put them on the bun, then loaded about eight inches of bacon on top of that, then added two fried eggs, and then topped it off with the top bun.  

It was a GIANT sandwich and was a sight to behold.  

We stopped at this little lady's place TWICE! Haha!

Some pastries for there and some pastries for later!😋

I thought these meringues were so pretty I had to get a picture.

Trent and Kathy got a crepe, as well.

After the market we found a parking spot outside a souvenir store to buy some things to take home.

Kathy could not pass up a souvenir store on this trip!  HAHA!

Some sights around the city....

We were able to grab a black taxi tour and learn about the "troubles" of Northern Ireland.

It was interesting to learn about.

We were able to stop at the peace wall and write our messages of peace.

The last place we stopped was the beautiful cathedral on the Catholic side of the wall.

After the tour we drove to Banbridge to have dinner at Jingles Restaurant.  Banbridge is where George and Elizabeth Truesdale recorded their marriage so we thought it fitting to have at least one meal there in commemoration.

Brach and Kendra had come here their first night into town and recommended it.

The owner was so accomodating to us and even though we did not have an appointment got us right in with little wait.  The food was very good and I believe this was the boys' favorite place for sticky toffee pudding.  It was LOADED with carmel sauce!

Cheers to you George and Eliza!!

The next day was Sunday and we were able to catch a Sacrament meeting in Lisburn.  It was a wonderful meeting with the youth giving talks and thoughts on their recent trip to the Preston Temple.

What a valiant group of Young Men and Young Women!

After Sacrament Meeting we headed over to the Drumballyroney Church to take in the Worship Service there.  The pastor spoke of the need to bring in more people.  It is a big beautiful church but not very many people.  As the years go by fewer and fewer people are going to church.  It is sad....

After the services we were able to meet up with William, the records clerk, to look through some very old books for baptismal records.  It was very nice of him to help us with gathering Trusdale names for family history.  He then took us out to the graveyard to show us where some of the Trundles would have been buried according to his book and map.

This is a picture of the Boys Brigade that were having a special ceremony that afternoon.

The boys Brigade is much like the Boy Scouts.  They all looked so cute in their uniforms.

That afternoon we drove over to the Ballyward Church where more Trusdales had been buried.

That evening we met with a man named of Graham Truesdale in his home to talk about family history.  Not much really came of that meeting but it was nice.

After that we drove around to find a few more places where the Paxtons and Trusdales were tenants.

It was a nice afternoon.  We got home just after dark and had a Sunday dinner of leftovers.

This was the last full day of our time in Ireland and it felt like we were busy all of the time!  Every night we got home past 9:00 so we didn't have much time for just visiting at the home.  I wanted to use the fireplace and just enjoy being in the home but for this trip it was not to be.

The next morning we all packed up our stuff, cleaned out the fridge and headed out to the airport for our trip to Scotland!