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Hello again,
I was with ancestry.co.uk until  a couple of weeks ago, didn't know how lost i'd feel without it. It was a time thing. I seemed to be paying for it and never got the time to use it, although I've had amazing success with my other family.
I think I've explored every way of finding Eva. The only thing I couldn't get on ancestry were marriages. I've actually sat for hours on end trawling the streets of Lowell and was working my way through every ward in Philadelphia.
It doesn't work, it sends you a bit strange in the head and I decided I had to give up 
I'll never know now if Grandma ever knew when Eva had died. We have come to thinking that when people left these English shores, they went for good. 

Hi, thanks for taking time to look this information up .
It's a bit of a long story.. when we were small, early 50's, our Grandma used to tell us we had an Auntie Eva in Philadelphia. We never had any more details other than that she had a cafe (or maybe a restaurant ?) in Philadelphia. I didn't even know who she actually was until I started researching my family history around 3 years ago. She was actually my Grandma's Aunt, the sister of my Grandma's father, William Smith.
I have had great success finding an enormous family in America I never knew a thing about, all descended from my Grandma's mother but Aunt Eva continues to evade me. I'd love to know what happened to her.
as I said she married  Samuel George Crowther in Huddersfield, 2nd August 1904. there is no sign of him anywhere, deaths, immigration, war ...nothing!!!.
When she travelled to USA  she was bound for Mrs William Aitkens address in Lowell on her own. She was her friend, from home i believe.
There seems to have been a mass exodus from Huddersfield at the turn of the century, probably to work in the mills of Philadelphia.  Regards