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« on: Thursday 28 January 16 23:14 GMT (UK) »
Yes..don't know when..but she came to America definitely before 1860. Don't know who she travelled with or what name she used, or when she left Ireand, or how etc. I've looked everywhere and on all online sites (FamilySearch, Ancestry, RootsIreand, Famine Immigration Databases, etc) - can't find any record that remotely might be her, or her son Patrick (Lydon). The other difficulty is that she, and others of her generation, never learned to read or write and the census takers in America also may have been slightly illiterate or of a different culture..so names, spelling of names, dates, birthplaces, etc were wildly different from census to census. It's a mystery I'm determined to solve! The only clue is that her maiden name, Turner, is the one consistent thing across some records, e.g. Patrick's obituary and death record, and that of his sister (Catherine).