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New Developments in the Elliot/Darragh/Dillane Project

The 14 Day Research Like a Pro Challenge may be over, but the work goes on. There have been several developments since I finished up my project to discover if Joanna Elliot was the mother of Dorah Darragh, a third great-grandmother.    New Developments   I connected with a Dillane descendant on Ancestry via their messaging system. My theory is that Dorah Darragh's mother was Joanna Elliot, and that Joanna was a Dillane, accounting for the close connection between their families. I contacted my new friend after noticing that he had the Elliots, Darraghs, and Dillanes in his Ancestry family tree. He is a descendant of John Dillane, Charles Dillane's brother. My new collaborator held many of the same theories and conclusions that I had come to regarding these families.    He also corrected one relationship that I got wrong: The Esther Dillane living with Edward and "Georgina" Elliot  in 1861 was not Charles and Mary Dillane's daughter, but the daughter of ano...
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FAMILY PHOTO FRIDAY


A smiling Grandpa Kozlina holds Tommy, with Grandma and Mom, about 1941. Photo colorized at MyHeritage.

 

By Nancy Gilbride Casey


It's time to share more of the great photos I received from Cousin Marlene (with annotations by Cousin Joe), from Pennsylvania.1


These photos feature our grandparents Thomas and Margaret Kozlina in the early days of their marriage, with my Mom, Anna Margaret Kozlina and her brother Tommy Kozlina, with one image with my Aunt Marian as a baby.

Uncle Tommy and Grandma, on the stairs of the Kozlina home in Lemont Furnace, Fayette, Pennsylvania. 



Uncle Tommy is probably about a year or so old, so likely taken about 1941.

Below, Grandma is celebrated on Mother's Day, May 14, 1944, with Grandpa Kozlina, my Mom, and Uncle Tommy.

 
Grandma, Grandpa in rear, Tommy and Mom in front.
Beautiful Grandma!

Grandma and Grandpa.


Grandma and Mom.

Lastly, here is one with Aunt Marian as a baby. Cousin Joe wrote, "Picture taken in Lemont. Home place. This is what yards looked like. Building on right is outside toilet. I tore those down in 1972." Lemont Furnace in Fayette, Pennsylvania, was the home of Grandpa Kozlina's parents, Frank and Louise Kozlina, who emigrated from Croatia in the early 1900s.

Baby Marian, on right, held by Grandpa, about 1946.

Hope you enjoyed these photos. More to come next Family Photo Friday! Special thanks to Cousins Marlene and Joe for sharing and for remembrances.

Until next time...


NOTES

1 Kozlina family photos, circa 1940-1946, various locations, unidentified photographer; private collection of N. Casey [address for private use], Tioga, TX, 2022.

 


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