1777. The date upon which Im currently at a road block. Trying different roots, each has led to the same. Id always assumed that the first emigration to the US in my tree happened when my maternal Scottish aunt left in the 1950s for religious purposes (Catholic marrying Protestant), but now Ive unleashed a new perspective, going back 8 generations in Ireland, shipping records would reveal my great paternal Irish aunt would depart from Liverpool and later, a gravestone would mark her final resting place in New York in 1893. She was followed soon by two sons who then settled in Johnson Iowa. What a huge revelation to me. Im 3/4 Irish though I was born and raised in London, and my Irish ancestors would be born to families of 10 and 12 children so the tree would reveal 100s of living distant cousins in Iowa and Nebraska. What struck me was the date of the shipping records, 1864, which led to the obvious conclusion of the Irish potato famine (the Great Famine), and later referred to genocide, being the catalyst for emmigration. But why did Margaret leave one and two years before her sons, who would form the foundations of the new American ancestry, off to a good start with 8 children. Had her husband passed, his records having dissolved through the years so as to make her voyage appear solo? And the lifespan on her gravestone. My paternal great relatives lived long into their 80s and 90s, the oldest two being 99 and 103. There is something to be said for imposed downtown in your life as now and Ive used it to delve into genealogy and uncover secrets of my past. With longevity on my side, the search is just beginning.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 15:39:17 +0000
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