re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

One of my great-grandfathers was also an illegal alien from Ireland to Canada and then to upstate NY. He must have been really something: my great-grandmother was of the famous Sheridan line.

My husband is from a rather less-famous Sheridan line, as his grandfather didn’t leave Ireland till about 1883 — left home about age 14 to be a cabin boy; settled in Key West somewhere about the turn of the century. Who knows, there may be a connection back there on the auld sod.