PART 2 :-)
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can you tell me more about Mary Morrison?
and her family?
where are they from?
I don't know much about the Morrison family except that their father was James, a farmer (possibly a butcher?) from Mayo and their mother was Bridget (don't know surname).
Thomas Staunton & Mary Morrison had 12 children in total. 2 sons, James & Peter fought & were killed in World War 1. I have a photo of the family headstone.
From my research, it's clear that the majority of the Fitzpatrick family stayed in Liverpool. I've got Norah's older brother James, marrying Mary Sweeney & had 6 children. Norah's older sister Mary Evadne ("Vaddy") married John Pemberton & had 2 daughters.
But Norah also had 7 younger siblings:
Thomas Henry
Joseph G
Henrietta "Rita"
Kathleen J
Henry P "Harry"
John P
Patrick P.
my mom told us last night that there were 3 sisters who were just to go to massachusetts to work as milliners or something, but then Mary met Thomas Stanton who was older than she, seemed to be doing well, so she stayed in l-pool.
Your post has actually given ME some new information.
(1) It sounds like the plan for Morrison sisters should have been for them to go to the USA - but pork butchering in Liverpool clearly was a big attraction! :-)
(2) I didn't know that Henry "Harry" Fitzpatrick was a Scottish footballer - I'll need to look into that!
Honor and Thomas Patrick did very well indeed. They had 3 daughters and instead of having them schooled in Liverpool, had enough money to send all 3 to a convent school in Belgium.
One of Bridget's brothers, Myles Staunton, emigrated to the US around 1900-1910. So you probably have some Staunton cousins over there.
my mom need to help tell this better than i am, but we were just talking about this last night, so this is very timely.
I hope your Mum makes sense of this. I'd be very interested to hear how she is related to John Burnes Campbell Ross and Norah Winifred Fitzpartrick.
thank you!
tracey
No problem and hope that's useful,
John
