I am trying to trace my great grandfather's birth and birthplace. I know that he was born somewhere in Ireland (can't find any traces) in about 1839 and moved to England in the late 1870's where he married a Sarah Parker. He died in Lancashire, England, in 1901. He described himself as a horse breaker on his marriage cert. I imagine that he came from a large family and I know that many Napoleons migrated to Chicago from the 1870's to the 1920's so I am just hoping that an American contact may know of a link through their family to him.

Please contact me at lichfield.hold@xtra.co.nz if you think you have any info that may help me.