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James Riordan was my great grandmothers younger brother. She was born Mary Riordan and she was 99 years old when she died in 1978. She was sent to the US when she was 14 by her older brothers (so the family story goes) an American family paid her passage and she had to work for them until her debt was satisfied. She married a gentleman by the name of Bernard Flood they were my fathers paternal grandparents and when Jim came to the States after leaving Ireland he stayed with her for a time, he then went to Australia something about a price on his head from the Crown and bounty hunters.