Subject: Re: [WEX] Bolgers, migrating via New Orleans > "A Farewell to Famine" is about the emigration of one large group of > Catholics led by Father Hore to the USA on three ships through the > Port of New Orleans in 1850. The ships were the Ticonderoga, the > Chasca, and the Loodianah. The group broke up to some degree but there > is a settlement in Northeast Iowa with descendents of the group > that settled there. There is a Wexford,Iowa. Is there any mention of POWER(S) arriving on these ships? I have just connected with desc. of Margaret POWER(S), b. Kilmore, Co. Wexford, who arrived via New Orleans in circa 1850, with a couple of siblings. She married (1853) and settled in PA. I descend from her brother Richard, who came to Australia. Thanks, Andrea Balcombe (nee POWER) Cobden, Victoria, Oz.