That was a bit like what happened in Australia too.Thanks for that.My ancestors are from County Cork too
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My Great Grand Uncle Christopher Hussey left Co Westmeath in the Summer of 1851 for New York and went to live in New Haven CT with a sister. In 1853 he headed to Virginia. He was naturalized as a citizen of the US in April 1855 in Ohio County Virginia. He seems to be living in Covington Virginia in 1860 and he is a labourer. Back in Ireland I think he may have worked some of the time on the great midland and western railway near Mullingar around 1850 or so. He left Ireland to abscond from being a witness in a agrarian outrage case involving his family. I think he might have worked on the railway in Virginia. In 1861 he seems to have joined the Confederate army and served in the 27th Virginia infantry in the stonewall brigade and died in june of 1863 of 'heart disease' not long after Stonewall Jackson himself died. Christopher was a brother of my great grandfather Patrick who remained in Westmeath and inherited the farm. Christopher is not listed among those 2000 workers documented on the chlann mhor website, so.. perhaps he was a labourer in some other kind of work. But it is possible he worked on the railway too.
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