I have found a John Hyland born about 1854-55 married to one Julia Charlotte Brown in 1872 and a Margaret Hyland born 1859 married to one of these two men: Joseph Milton or a James Mayler. If so I am wondering if they stsyed behind and were living with Malachi/Malachy and Bridget Hyland. I am assuming that possibly this man may have been a brother to my John and decided to keep the 2 children when John and Mary came to live in the US? Who was the Malachi/Malachy Hyland? Nothing on Google or Rootsweb World Connect. Why did the children not stay with their parents? Makes one wonder what happened to the family that caused such a rift?

COLEEN COLEMAN wrote: > I have found a John Hyland born about 1854-55 married to one Julia > Charlotte Brown in 1872 and a Margaret Hyland born 1859 married to > one of these two men: Joseph Milton or a James Mayler. If so I am > wondering if they stsyed behind and were living with > Malachi/Malachy and Bridget Hyland. I am assuming that possibly > this man may have been a brother to my John and decided to keep the > 2 children when John and Mary came to live in the US? Who was the > Malachi/Malachy Hyland? Nothing on Google or Rootsweb World > Connect. Why did the children not stay with their parents? Makes > one wonder what happened to the family that caused such a rift? Hallo I was told never to assume anything but to use thoughts as the starting point for a line of research. When did John and Margaret marry and in which registration district? If you have look in the next census after the marriage for the two men you should be able to find which of them is Margaret's husband. Malachi could be a brother, uncle, cousin or other relative. To find out the connection you would have to research him using Family Search, FreeREG, censuses and similar sources. There need not have been a rift at all. It was not uncommon for parents to leave young children with relatives when they first went to a new country so the parents could find a home and work before the children joined them. If the older children had become settled with their relatives maybe a decision was made to leave them in England instead. Perhaps the parents didn't intend to stay for long. It would have been cheaper for them to have sailed without their family. I think it would have been quite a frightening but exciting experience to travel to America in the mid 1800s especially not knowing what to expect or would be found. The schemes encouraging workers to emigrate would have played up the positive aspects and played down or ignored the negative aspects. Connie in London