My great grandmother

Anne Hernan, was born about 1855 in Carrowtrasna, Co. Donegal, where her parents, Denis and Mary, had a farm. She was the second of thirteen children.

She married John Crumlish, who lived in the nearby village of Moville, on 15 February 1876. They had four children, Mary Anne, Denis, Margaret and Kathleen before John emigrated to America, without her, about 1881.

John returned to Ireland some years later, and the couple had a further five children, Frances, Theresa, Nora, Charles and Evelyn. There may have been a further four children, called John, James, Thomas and Leo.

Anne died in Moville, Co. Donegal in 1945, and is buried in St Marys Ballybrack.