James Rogers

GEDCOM Note

Bio notes: <p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">Changed name from McGroary to Rogers when he emigrated to US</p> <p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr"> </p> <p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">Possible 1900 census:  arrived from Ire. 1882, not US citizen, can read & write, farm laborer, rent house
(179  11  88)</p> <p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr"> </p> <p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">ship list arriving in Phila., 25 Apr 1898:
  James McGroary  (age)35  laborer   (ship)Waesland  (from)Liverpool
 other notes... US citizen since 1882
 "Phila., to brother John & sister, Bridget, Bryn Mawr, PA
  $25.00 ticket from Lough Clough"</p> <p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr"> The mystery of "Lough Clough" has plagued me since the 1980s.  Professional researchers could find no townland by that name.  There is a lake by that name in Mayo but researchers could find no name matches in nearby towns.  Around 2015, I was playing around with soundex names and expanding into England and Scotland.  There is a very small town in Lancashire named Love Clough.  Around 2016, I came across a random publication from the Rathmelton area that mentioned that poorer male residence of the area were going to England for work when it was not time for tending to crops.  There are McGroarys that popup in Lancashire censuses at times -- could our McGroarys have been seasonally migrating to the Lancashire area?  In 2017, a little homework in Love Clough showed that the now sleepy hamlet was once home to industry (at least one large printing plant) and that strikes in the 1800s had prompted the owner to bring in irish families from Manchester.  St.James the Less was built nearby in the mid 1800s and may be a place for further research as well as any Catholic parish between there and Manchester.</p> <p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">Also note that if James migrated in 1882, what was this trip in 1898?  $25 would be approx $700 in 2017 dollars which would seem to be a good-sized price to pay for someone who was a laborer on the 1900 census.</p> <p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr"> </p> <p style="text-align: left;" dir="ltr">1930 census for daughter Sarah indicates her parents were born in "Northern Ireland" as opposed to "Irish Free State" on other individuals.</p>