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Roger, I had not looked at RootsChat for some time. It was only after I had sent my recent message that I realised that it was you - I should have looked at the date! We are all well and, like yourself, I have not been doing much with the family tree. I do have one little piece of information about Minnie / Winifred that I will share with you. You will remember Mother’s cousin Winnie who was born out of wedlock to Minnie Churchill in 1910. She was fostered for a couple of years until Minnie married Fred Stamp and then taken into the family. I knew that Minnie was working in Bath as a housemaid but that was all I knew. I was looking up something else in the 1911 census when it occurred to me that Minnie should be listed. I searched and Lo and Behold she shows up in the household of one Dr Rupert Waterhouse at 25, Circus, Bath. If you look closely at the attached census transcript you will note that he is a single gentleman. You may also surmise that just one year after Minnie had given birth he was being closely supervised by his mother and his sister.

It is now a matter of some regret that when our descendants are looking us up 100 years from now they will conclude that we were rather a dull lot. I suppose it’s too late to do anything about it now!

I am descended from O'Reillys near Kanturk. I do not have a Julia on my family tree but there are not too many O'Reilly families in North Cork.

Mary's father remarried in 1864 so one can only surmise that wife number 2 wanted to clear the patch for her own offspring. If Mary travelled to the US at age 14 you can be sure that she was either accompanied by a relative or that there was a relative waiting for her on the quay. We did manage to track down one of Mary's brothers in Australia and I am in correspondence with his grandaughter. She does not however have any information on the other siblings. Do you happen to know Mary's address in the US? People often included a reference to the old country in a house address.

Moderator's Note: attachment removed as the family tree contained details of many living relatives.

Hi Benzol
I am a new member to RootsChat. I have been building my family tree for many years with the help of many collaborators. I have extensive records of the Churchill family from Crewkerne, Somerset. I discovered Rootschat through a web search that showed up a series of posts regarding John Churchill who emigrated to Philadelphia in the 19th Century. Lucy Churchill survived and I am currently in touch with her grandson.