Ethnicity

A Prior Pandemic

My American ancestress was a victim of the Russian flu pandemic. Ellen Beech was born in 1804 in New Jersey.1 She was widowed in 1874.2 She died on 1 April 1890 in Michigan, and her death was due to influenza.1 She was buried in Mich.3

Irish Americans

Susan Ann was born in 1811 in New Jersey.1 She married in 1838.2 The 1880 census says her father was born in Ireland.1 She died in 1895, and she was buried in Pennsylvania.3

Her daughter, Frances Leonore Martin, was born in 1841 in N.J.4 She married in 1858 in Pa.5 She was widowed in 1900.4 She died in 1928, and she was buried in Pa.6

Gool Peran Lowen


A Cornishman eats a pasty on St Piran's Day outside Truro Cathedral - it doesn't get any more Cornish than this picture

Wisconsin

We will be in Wisconsin from May 31 to June 6. We are going there to visit friends and to research our ancestry. Our focus will be the surnames Garlick and Mellor. We are also interested in the local Cornish heritage.

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