My Irish ancestors settled in Swansea. My ggfather James and his wife Margaret Coltis emigrated between 1886 and 1888. So far I have not traced them definitively in county Waterford (their home place), but family tradition has it that the family came from Bunmahon, Ballyristeen, and I know from the marriage of James and Margaret that their fathers were Patrick Fleming and Thomas Coltis.
Coltis seems to be an unusual name. The only othe records of it in Waterford or Swansea that I can find have been a few marriages on IGI at the time period to potentially be Margarets siblings.
Margaret returned to Waterford in 1900 to have her 6th child, while James went over to the USA (allegedly) to join his brothers Philip and Michael who were copper mining in Butte, Montana. Margaret died of puerperal infection, James was home in time to register her death, and the bby (Katie/Catherine) disappears until her marriage in 1920.
James remarried and had a further 6 children.
I would dearly love to find anything about the Coltis family who are so elusive, as well as Flemings in Bunmahon area. I have found a death for a Patrick Fleming in Bunmahon, as registered by his wife, Bridget, and Partick and Bridget were names used in our family (along with every other Irish family of the time I suspect).
I don't suppose anyone else has any connection to Coltis?
Jill