Hi Debbi! i forwarded your email to another Rootsweb list called "NY IRISH"...Have you found her in a Ship's List to see who she might have travelled with? Have you tried the LDS site where you can type in any name and find info? (that's "family search.org") As to why someone would come to the US..remember the devastation of the potato famine 1847 onward. If she were living in Manchester she probably went there to find work..domestic or in a factory. My own family story is almost the same and very common. MY grtgndfthr, born in 1854 in Ireland came to NYC/Manhattan..and never left. Came to make a life..started as a stable boy and eventually a coachman on the streets of Manhattan. And here I am still in NYC. My mother's family lived in the West 40's too...Hell's Kitchen..on West 47th St, W 49th and W 51st. It is not impossible but likely that my Griffin family knew your family up there!! Good luck! Kelly Gray Gray-Griffin-Devlin > Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:54:11 +0000 > From: debbipowell@btinternet.com > To: NYNEWYOR@rootsweb.com > Subject: [NYNEWYOR] Mary Ellen Sullivan nee Eaton [Advice/help needed] > > Hi, > > I am trying to find some information about my x2 great grandfather's sister and try to figure out why it came that she moved to the USA from England, as far as I can tell, with the information I have, on here own. > > Her name was Mary Ellen Eaton (Father: John Eaton, Mother: Bridget Eaton nee Corrigan). She was born c1856 in Ireland but lived in Manchester, England (found in the 1861 census). > > When in the USA she married a Timothy James Sullivan (Born: Massachusetts. Father: Jeremiah Sullivan, Mother: Elizabeth Lovett) at Nativity Church, on the 10th Nov 1878, Manhatten, New York, New York. I have also found them on the 1880 United States census on West 49th Street, Manhatten, New York. > > This is the only information I have been able to find on her and I would be extremely grateful for any help or advice anybody could give me, as I would love to know some information about her and how she came to live in the US, but I have never researched any family history in the US before. > > Thank you > > Debbi > Jim Garrity, List Administrator > jimgarrity@earthlink.net > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYNEWYOR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook – together at last.  Get it now. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx?pid=CL100626971033