Hello China
Welcome to the forum, and sorry I missed this post.
One of Dad's cousins always said that the family came over at the time of the potato famine. THIS IS WRONG.
I imagine that the family did come from Ireland, but I have no idea when or where from.
Emma's grandfather died in 1843, unfortunately. But in 1841 the census says he was born in Hampshire and he was apprenticed to a fireman in Portsmouth Dockyard in 1808.
Can I ask how you are related? A direct descendant of Emma, or one of her three surviving siblings? PM me if you don't want the details public.
__________________
The chestnuts cast their flambeaux
|