POSTCARD OF WHARVES IN PITTSBURGH,PA

PITTSBURGH WAS THE DESTINATION FOR IMMIGRANT GRANDPARENTS

Hannah Sharp (1875-1956) travelled from her home in Silloth, Cumberland, and sailed from Liverpool, May 1890 on board 'Servia' arriving in New York, 7th July 1890. Hannah aged 15 years was unaccompanied, wearing a luggage label around her neck for identification.

Elizabeth (Rowlands) Thomas (1883-1910) and Thomas William Thomas (1881-1923) travelled from their home in Mountain Ash, Glamorgan, sailing from Liverpool, 26th September 1907 on board 'Cedric' arriving in New York, 5th October 1907.

Wharves on the Monongah River, Pittsburgh in 1907

Hannah Sharp returned to the UK on the 1st October 1897, sailing from New York in September 1897 on-board the ship 'Servia'; she then settled finally in South Shields to where her parents had re-located.

Elizabeth (Rowlands) Thomas returned to Wales in June 1910 sailing from New York on the 'Mauretania' with her infant son, William Rowland Thomas (1909-1923). She lived with her parents in Glyneath, sadly dying on the 3rd October 1910.

Thomas William Thomas visited the UK twice, in 1914 & 1920 to see his son, staying at his family home in Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. He was killed in a mining accident on the 7th June 1923, in New Kensington, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

SEE ALSO POST THOMAS.W.THOMAS (1881-1923)