On Fri, 18 May 2007, McGowan, Laurie wrote: > as he emigrated to Delaware in the U.S. in May of 1903. He > unfortunately died a few years after my grandmother was born (she was > born in 1905) and I'm trying to track down a date and place of death > here. I wonder if there would be anything in the Cork newspapers? Did > the papers report deaths of immigrants at all? His father Andrew > Fitzgerald would still have been in Cork/Mallow as well as father in > law, Timothy Purcell. Death notices of Irish immigrants in American, Canadian and Australian newspapers sometimes carried the notation "Cork papers please copy". The reverse was also true and in Irish papers can be found variants of the phrase "American [or Australian, etc.] papers please copy." The Irish press all subscribed to various foreign papers and would use them for a source of news stories that may be of interest. It was a common practice to reprint death notices as requested. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Ireland Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.IrelandOldNews.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -