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A Genealogy Friend found the 1832 French Passport record for the Evans Family - 1832 French Passport with TranslationTracking the Evans Family John and Mary Evans had four children - Emma 1820 born in England, Benjamin 1826 and John born 1831 born in France, and Eben born 1840 Scotland. When I started researching this family, I was tracking down...
Peter Hegarty 1883 Found a surprising record in the Irish Civil Records - not sure what to think Background - Regarding Rathavisteen Hegartys in the Irish Civil Records Peter Hegarty & Mabel Browne - Irish Civil Records for this family found a few to date. Records located 1899 Marriage of the youngest son, Peter Hegarty 1943 Death record...
Background My great grandfather, Thomas Francis O'Connor's, parents were Anthony O'Connor and Julia Henry. They were both born in Ireland in the late 1840s. Where they were from in Ireland was unknown. Their parents names were unknown Here is what was known 1 - Julia Henry reported in the 1900 & 1910 US Census that she had given...
100 years ago today my grandfather, Anthony Aloysius O’Connor, shipped out to France to fight in WWI. He departed on the SS Canada from New York as a member of the 306th Army Corps of Engineers. Anthony O’Connor was inducted into the United States Army in on 29 May 1918. Two months later, on 30 July 1918, he...
Marriage Application 1899 Thomas Francis O’Connor’s mother was Julia Henry. Julia Henry O’Connor was widowed when her husband Anthony O’Connor was run over by a train in Pittsburgh, PA in 1894. Aunt Alice had a notation in her records that Julia Henry had first been married to a Dan Regan in Ireland, then married to Anthony O’Connor. Turns...
Patrick Scott & Catherine Fadden emigrated from Ireland to Scranton Pennsylvania with their family on the ship “Germanic” in 1886. The manifest was submitted on 19 April 1886 at the Port of New York. SS Germanic The Scott family is recorded as from Mayo, Ireland and detailed as follows James Scott - age 8 - child Pat Scott...
The steamship "Maude" sailed from Liverpool in 1873 bound for the new world. Among the emigrants, was a young family from Ireland. Ellen Reilly (Helen Toohil) and her five children were headed to Scranton, Pennsylvania to join her husband John Reilly. Three year old Ellen Reilly traveled to America with her mother in 1873. Ellen was my great...