Cina
Yes, I do love this photo that I found only a few years ago, well on toward my 70th year. My grandmother Mary is the girl in white whom I remember only in her old age. She died in 1955. Around her are her brothers Joseph, Owen, and Patrick (in the front in the Lord Fauntleroy outfit). Her mother Catherine and father Joseph frame the group. Mary left Ireland forever about ten years after this photo was taken and six months after she saw her father die; I found his death certificate at the GRO in Dublin last year, and Mary was the informant named there. It's sad to note that once she left she never saw any of her family again. In the late 1970s my uncle, Mary's first son, visited Ireland and managed to find the grown and married daughters of little Patrick in the photo, themselves by that time grandmothers. They knew only that they had an "Aunt Mary" and that she left for America long, long ago. By then everyone in this photo was long dead.
JG
