Barnhill House, Home to Gerry & Sandra Kelly, and home of Frank Stroker & his daughter, Kate. The Kellys still farm the same acreage that Frank farmed one hundred and…
Category: Rhode Island
Two New Old-Friends at the Rhode Island Famine Memorial The Irish Famine Memorial is the perfect meeting place for two new friends. Scott Molloy and Ray Sr. met for the…
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It’s been a little over a year since Dad, Dan and I went to County Monaghan in search of Dernalosset. We didn’t know at the time that we were searching…
Mary Hogan McLaughlin and daughters Sara & Mary, mid-1870’s. In researching families, one always hopes to find the explorer, the king, the famous hero. But life does not work that…
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I remember the day like it was yesterday. It was a warm summer day in 1960. My great uncle, Frank Carson, was at our house to visit his sister, Marcella Smalley,…
Five generations and at least 150 years separate these two men. Alexander McDonald Lawson was born in Edinburgh in 1814. On October 9, 1850, he sailed from Glasgow to New…
Providence, Rhode Island in the 1858. “The day, as benefits the season, was very pleasant, the streets were thronged with thousands who came to visit us from the neighboring towns.…
(This is article first appeared in 2011 in the Providence Journal and in the Northern Standard in Monaghan, Ireland). When Federal Hill Was Irish When most Irish-Americans make the trek…