This is a sad story. I didn't know what the circumstances of our Great, Great Grandmother's emigration from Ireland to the US. I knew that she and her eight-year-old brother left Ireland in 1852, with an older cousin to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the ship, "Superior" from Londonderry, Ireland. I thought that they were orphans. The picture below provides a lot of disturbing answers, that I didn't like to see. My Great, Great Grandmother, Mary Given, was born in 1841 and her brother, James Given, was born in 1844. The picture below is a register from the Glenties Union Workhouse. If you don't know anything regarding the Workhouses in Ireland during the famine, look it up. Not a nice place to be. On line 1016 and 1017, you can see the names of Mary and James. Next to their age, you will notice that their status was deserted. A couple of lines over, you will see that the father and mother left them in Ireland and went to America, during the famine and left the children in Ireland. Who does that? Who leaves their children? Of course, at the age of 10 and 8, respectively, they both had to work. Listed as the occupations were spriggers (planting vegetables or trees). They were brought into the Workhouse on February 5, 1852 and discharged on August 2, 1852. The Workhouse didn't want them, so they bought them a ticket, stuck them on a boat and forcefully emigrated them to America. Lastly, their home, in Ireland, was located in the townsland of Stracashel, near Glenties, Donegal, Ireland. Both of the children later intermarried into the Boyle family of Lansford, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, but both died early in life. What a tragedy!