Ellis Island and Castle Garden records (General)

by maggiec, Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 08:05 (6102 days ago) @ slowhands

Iohn Green and Mary Ann Markey were, I think, married somewhere in North America. probably Pennsylvania, sometime towards the end of the 1860s. They may have got to know each other because they both had a connection with the Forest of Dean. I suppose that if you were setting off to the States you would try to go to a place where people you knew or whom your friends knew were already living.

Emily Green was born in 1872 in Pennsylvania but she returned to S.Wales with her parents sometime before 1874 when her sister Margaret Ann was born. Emily's daughter died only a few years ago but she didn't remember her mother talking about America,( she was ,after all, only a small child when she returned.) The family were the one living in Cefn, Trelewis, Gelligaer, in the 1881 census.

I think I must have misled you somehow because my Emily Green never returned to the USA.

Thanks again for all the information you've given me.

maggiec