Genealogical Gems

Joseph M Welsh is my great uncle. Specifically he is my maternal grandmother’s brother. Born 28 August 1912, he was the son of Martin Welsh and Catherine O’Flaherty of Phoenixville. He was died 6 December 1993, just shy of his 81 st birthday. Funeral Card for Joseph M Welsh, my great uncle. His funeral service was held at Cattermole-Klotzbach Funeral Home in Royersford, Montgomery County . The Rev. Dennis H. Warner, Pastor of the Church of the Epiphany, officiated. He was buried at the Fernwood Cemetery in Royersford. Funeral Card Friday is a genealogical prompt of GeneaBloggers. © Jeanne Ruczhak-Eckman, 2016

This year I set 10 genealogy related goals for myself. The first of which was to find my maternal great grandmother on a passenger list from Ireland to the US . So far, she remains elusive. What I do know: Mary is the daughter of James Kilpatrick. He stayed behind but Mary and her six siblings came to the United States . They were: Margaret, Martha, Theresa, Nora, James and John. Mary was born on 12 November 1884 in County Mayo , Ireland . She came here and found employment near Philadelphia on the Main Line . That is where she met Pierson George Still, a blacksmith from Unionville. They married in 1908. In 1909 they had a daughter Margaret who sadly only lived two months. The next year she bore a son, James Franklin Still, who lived to be 68. Uncle Jim was a character!   In 1913 another daughter – Dorothy – was born but also passed that same year. The following year my grandfather Lloyd Pierson Still was born. Like Uncle Jim, he lived a full life, passing at age 79. In Feb...