Farm servant Mary Gorman s life took an unimaginable course after giving testimony in the trial of Roger Casement, ending up in New York, where she disappeared from the historical record. What became of her? The search continues
John, a historian, is the great-great-grandson of Daniel Dowd, a farmer who came to America on the Jeanie Johnston in 1849. When he told Susan his family was.
em Susan Showalter, John Kudlik, Alexander Kudlik. /em
Susan Showalter, John Kudlik, Alexander Kudlik. By Marian Betancourt, Contributor
On their first date ten years ago in a French restaurant in Pittsburgh, John Kudlik and Susan Showalter, both part Irish, discovered they had something in common. John, a historian, is the great-great-grandson of Daniel Dowd, a farmer who came to America on the
Jeanie Johnston in 1849. When he told Susan his family was from a town in Country Kerry called Ballymacelligot, she said, “You’re not going to believe this, but it is the ancestral home of the Babbingtons,” her mother’s family.