We’ve been searching for information on Uncles Pat and Pete Martin, the mystery siblings of my great-grandmother Catherine Martin Dunne. We know that Pat lived
We’ve been searching for information on Uncles Pat and Pete Martin, the mystery siblings of my great-grandmother Catherine Martin Dunne. We know that Pat lived
In my Flanagan timeline, I stopped the clock at 1926, leaving my future-grandmother 36 y.o. CATHERINE bereft — her family all tragically gone, her husband
As a city saturated with European immigrants in scores of Catholic parishes, St. Louis was always a big soccer town. In the 1930s, my dad
Above is a photo of my dad’s first-grade class. What a sad-looking bunch of Irish-American ragamuffins. They were obviously just scolded to keep their hands
Maggie Keville made her way to America like so many other late 19th-century Irish — an 18-year-old “spinster,” traveling without family, aboard the S.S. Alaska.
Why the English Prices moved to St. Louis in the late 19th century is a mystery. Our Irish ancestors emigrated as part of a phenomenon