Hi folks,
No need to do any checking folk - just advice, experience or suggestions...
Anyone come across this before? I've found a record for a female ancestor which gives relations, etc as "for Patrick Walsh widower of Catherine O'Leary". These are quite likely to be her parents - I only have these as Patrick and Catherine Walsh at present.
Anyhow my question is this - I have no record of them leaving Ireland and would need to follow this up but would someone put down (presumably as) beneficiaries people back in their homeland? After all how would they be contacted in case of my ancestor's death?
At the time of the record she would have had 8 grown up children living with her in NYC.
Cheers - Michael (shared account with sister).