Thank you everyone!
Emily Catherine Johnson was born in London, England.
Her father James Johnson was born in Dunlavin, Co. Wickow.
Her mother Emily Smith/Smyth might have been born in Ireland or London, England. I am working on that and might have found her parents Frederick Smyth and Elizabeth Pakenham. If these are her parents, she was born in Ireland. I believe that she was a Protestant (her husband was a Catholic) and we were told that she was disowned because she married outside her faith. It would explain why Emily's parents/family never stepped in to help Emily Catherine.
In 1901 she lived with her paternal grandmother Catherine Donnelly Johnson.
In 1909 she was brought to live at Nazareth House Ormeau Road in Belfast and lived there until 1911-1912. It says "Boarding School" in the 1911 Census but I don't think that it was. She was Catholic and both her parents and her grandmother had died by 1909. I find this information so devastating. She must have been such a resilient child. I feel for her.
In October of 1912 she wrote a letter to her brother in Canada and the address she gave was her Aunt Bridget's (8 Ashley Street, Co. Down).
What a tragic life's journey!
hallmark - If she was living with her Aunt in Banbridge, would she not be working in Banbridge?
Is there a database somewhere that would have information about "Factory Workers"?
Claddagh
