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From: ron <>
Subject: Re: [LAORLEAN-L] Irish in New Orleans
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 11:49:14 -0400


Sure--They probably heard about the partying French Quarter! Sorry, just
couldn't resist. Dolly

Alice+Jim Hord wrote:

> Does anyone know why an Irish family in the 1860s would have gone to
> N.O. when there were so many other ports to 'get off' at along the way?
> were there more oppertunities for them there at that time? William and
> Alice MONAHAN were the parents of my gr.grandmother Alice Cecilia
> MONAHAN,she was born there in 1865 ~ she married Thomas Francis O'NEILL
> ,b.1862 in Buffalo N.Y~they were in Baltimore,MD. in1889 when my
> gr.mother was born, they had 11 children in all and they all ended up in
> St.Louis,MO.~Thanks
>
> ALICE >*;*<

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