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Like to try solving a mystery? Here's one just in time for St. Patrick's Day.

When the site of the new home of the Toronto International Film Festival on King Street W was excavated as suspected remains of an old fever hospital were uncovered.

One of the finds was a copper alloy button. It is now displayed along with other finds with the follwing information... "The button has a shank shaped like the Greek letter Omega soldered onto the back. The front of the button features the Latin proverb In Deo est omnis mihi fides which in English is ‘In God is All My Trust.’ This phrase is one of the mottoes of the Sir William Henry Palmer Family of County Mayo, Ireland.

On the front of the button is one of numerous Palmer Family crests. In the centre is a chevron between three bells or possibly scrips (both items carried by a pilgrim) and directly above this is an arm grasping a pilgrim’s or palmer’s staff. A ‘palmer,’ a word which originates in the thirteenth century, is a pilgrim who would wear two crossed palm leaves or branches as a sign of his visit to the Holy Land.

The back of the button features the words JONES, CORK, HILL, and DUBLIN, probably referring to Edward Jones, an early nineteenth century button manufacturer at 2 Cork Hill in Dublin, Ireland.

There is currently no record of a Palmer having died at the hospital during the 1847 typhus epidemic. "

I am wondering if the button belonged to a former servant of the Palmer family who brought it with them? What do Genes Reunited on line experts think?
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