This question revolves around the photograph attached. The short and sweet of it is, despite the annotation on the back (also attached) we have no idea who these people are! We surmise it was sent in about 1920 by my great-uncle, William James Cummins (who was living at the time in Chicago), to one of his relatives (perhaps his sister-in-law, Catherine Ryan Cummins) living in Weehawken, New Jersey. The only logical identity is Margaret Egan Bracken, who was my great-great-grandmother's niece and, therefore, William James Cummins' cousin.
I know that Margaret Egan Bracken died in Tullamore in 1925, but I theorize that perhaps she immigrated to the US (for at least a while anyway) and remarried after her husband James Bracken died in 1919. The house in the background looks decidedly American and just as decidedly not Irish. It might be James Bracken’s wife or it might not. And who knows what William James' inscription on the back really means (down where? July 19??)? I have no idea who the Bill in the picture is since none of my Bracken trees contain anyone by the name of William Bracken. The only unmarried Margaret Bracken in my tree is the daughter of Dennis Bracken (1879 - 1916) and Kate Gannon (1876 - ?) and she died at the age of 2 in 1908).
If anyone out there recognizes this lady and can put a name and a history to her, that would be fantastic!
Wednesday 28th Nov 2018, 03:35AM
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Hi,
The Census says the children were born in Kings now Offaly. But I can't find the births in Ireland. Maybe they came back to Ireland in 1901 and stayed with her brother.This is Margaret's death
this is the death of James
1911 Census
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1911/King_s_Co_/Durrow/Ballyduff/560841/
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai002673098/1901 Census
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/pages/1901/King_s_Co_/Durrow/Ballyduff/1471391/
http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/reels/nai000955467/
Margot
Margot
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Thanks for all the links! : )
All of that data is already in my tree and most of it is "past history," if the lady in the picture is, in fact, Margaret Egan Bracken. If it is, I need to piece together what happened between the death of her husband in 1919 to her own death in 1925. The person listed as the witness to Margaret's death, Ellen "Nellie" Bracken Schrimmenti, was Margaret's youngest child. She, like William James Cummins, was living in Chicago at the time, which lends credence to my theory that Margaret Egan Bracken was in the US and living somewhere near the two of them. I just cannot prove it unequivocally.
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Hi Kevin,
The only place you may get the information is in Ancestry Worldwide.
They have the travel records to and from the USA and other countries.
You could join for a month.
MargotMargot