I got the answer! Fascinating. https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~jksparling/genealogy/d0006/f0000605.html
Susannah and Roger were married in the Church of Ireland in Killaloe Diocese in 1831 and Emma was baptised there at the end of the same year. I believe at that time marriages still needed to be CofI [Church of Ireland, Anglican] or RC [Roman Catholic] legally, so it’s hard to tell if they were practicing Methodists at the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killaloe_Cathedral
Killaloe Cathedral dates from the transition between the Romanesque and Gothic periods and was completed in 1225.
Susannah Sparling (John5, Philip4, John3, George P2, Peter1), born Apr 1808 in Killaloe, Clare, Ireland; deceased 9 Jun 1898. She emigrated in 1842 in St Marys, Perth Co, Ontario, Canada, Rodger "Rody" Hanley, born Jan 1812 in Ireland; deceased 16 Jul 1894.
Did Hanley convert to Sparling's Methodism in Canada? Or did Sparling convert to Hanley's Irish Catholicism? And then Emma Hanley (Irish Catholic) converted to Switzer's Methodism...? I found the answer (at least according to AI)
Mary Ann Hanly (born August 23, 1853, in Perth, Ontario) belonged to an Irish Palatine family of Methodist (specifically Wesleyan Methodist) heritage, rather than Catholic. Her parents, Rodger Hanly and Susanna Sparling, came from Irish Palatine roots in County Limerick and Tipperary associated with early Methodism in Ontario ..
So Rodger Hanley probably converted to Methodism in Canada and not Ireland...
As we can see - Roger Hanley and Susan Sparling had a HUGE grave memorial in Canada - so they must have been successful farmers. My mom says that Emma Hanley still had a "Palatine" background - meaning that Susan Sparling was Methodist since she was also a Palatine-Irish. But was Roger Hanley also methodist?
John SPARLING, Blanshard township
John Sparling (1812-1871) settled in Blanchard Township in 1842, along with his uncles, Peter and Christopher Sparling and his older sister and brother-in-law, Suzanne and Rody HANLEY. His younger brother, Frederick, joined them a few years later. This was an Irish Palatine family from County Tipperary and County Limerick. They were Wesleyan Methodist. John was elected to the District Council and was Captain of the local milita. He was later appointed Justice of the Peace and moved to St. Marys where he built a fine stone house which still stands at --. He relocated to the United States with his second wife and younger children in 1862 in the face of a political scandal. His adult children stayed behind to farm or pursue careers in the Methodist Church and teaching.
Contact person: Lois Sparling, Calgary, Alberta,
https://historyireland.com/the-palatines-in-ireland/
The general opinion of these ministers is almost universal: that the root cause of the famine in Ireland was ‘popery’. Relayed in the following works and centring on the supposed stagnancy bred in Irish peasants by Roman Catholicism, they help to illustrate the contemptuous attitude that many Methodist ministers held towards that religion.
that's harsh!!


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