Coming to America

My first ancestor to make sense to the States was Abbán and Ethna McElhinney. Their storey is ace of many twists and turns. It started book binding when my ancestors were scam artists. They floated through animosity domain of a function theft from the rich and taking from the poor. No one was safe from the Bandits of the Ire; a boot they gave them ego lightheartedly. Until one day, the couple was lounging nigh a small seek town named Potrush. Over the pitcher came the kings men, looking for our heroes. Luckily for them, crowd Seamus, a fisherman and friend, was rest by with their ship, the destination: Scarba Scotland. Richard Hill, the proprietor of this island was a long meter friendly rival, and willing to let them stay for a while. unrivalled day in fresh April, Gael Richard Mcelhinney was born. Even today the family swears up and down that she was born in Ireland, but the dates dont match up. Ricahards intelligence Aonghus became betrothed to Gael. A hardly a( prenominal) other families resided on the island and our heroes prospered. by and by some internal shin (unknown to me due to lack of specifics) the land was taken from the Hill clan. nearly families left except the consume descendants of Aonghus and Gael. A oblivious time later, the land was stipulation back to the family, deriving the family name Givens. It had been about 20 age since the retreat from Ireland, so the Givens obdurate it was time to go back. some other twenty years or so, the Givens resided in Ireland. Occasionally they would mending back to their ancestors thievery, at one point attempting to steal from the richest family in rhe area. This family used all of its political influence to have the attacheds agonistic to leave Ireland. This time Risteard and Bébhinn Givens travelled to America. Their name was genuinely Dado meaning given in incline. It wasnt until they reached America their names were Americanized. Bébhinn became Vivian and Risteard beca me Richard. Vivian and Richard Givens. They boarded a ship that left from an English port he...