Almost none of my family, on either side, that I can see, stayed in Europe. The McElhinnys, on my mom’s side. were still in Northern Ireland in the 1800s but everyone else seems to have left Britain, Ireland, and the Netherlands in the 1600s. As the Age of Discovery revealed land previously unknown to the Europeans, thousands of my antecedents seem to have, with one single common thought, jumped onboard creaky unreliable boats and sped off into the barely known. They rushed in to settle and exploit whatever resources they could get their hands on.
Stories about my Mother 12
Stories about my Mother 12
Stories about my Mother 12
Almost none of my family, on either side, that I can see, stayed in Europe. The McElhinnys, on my mom’s side. were still in Northern Ireland in the 1800s but everyone else seems to have left Britain, Ireland, and the Netherlands in the 1600s. As the Age of Discovery revealed land previously unknown to the Europeans, thousands of my antecedents seem to have, with one single common thought, jumped onboard creaky unreliable boats and sped off into the barely known. They rushed in to settle and exploit whatever resources they could get their hands on.