Donegal - Gallagher Family Passport  September 23, 1926

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File contributed by: Maureen Ickrath ickraths@verizon.net
March 16, 2009, 4:54 pm

GALLAGHER FAMILY PASSPORT SEPTEMBER 23, 1926

Source: Passport

These photos are of Annie McGinley Gallagher's passport from
her entry into the US with three of her six children. These
three children had been born in the US but had returned to
Ireland with their parents in 1917.

Additional Comments: Although the passport originally
contained all six children's photos, only the three oldest
(American born) children were actually permitted to enter
the US.  The other three were turned away for ostensibly
having "cold sores."  My grandmother assumed that she would
not be able to get the three youngest children in for some
time so she returned to Glencolmcille, Donegal and boarded
Kathleen (Catherine) age 9, Margaret age 5 and Daniel age 4
with her brothers and came to the US with the oldest three
children, Anne, Marion and Joe.  The reason she came to the
US was to claim an accidental death benefit paid upon the
death of her husband, Daniel Gallagher, who had fallen off
the back of a truck he was unloading.  The company he worked
for would not pay the money owed to her while she was in
Ireland.  The returned to Ireland 2 years later and brought
her three youngest children to the US in 1928.  She bought a
house in Brooklyn, New York within a few years and I grew up
in that house at 222 Troy Avenue.  Annie Gallagher died in
October 1958.