James Edwin Markham born in Rochester, NY

I have finally found some useful information, by using a free trial membership of Ancestry.com. As you would expect, James Markham (father of James Edwin Markham, who was my dad's maternal grandfather) shows up in a number of other people's family trees, and at least one of them shows records that he arrived in New York in 1848 on a boat from Liverpool. My sister, Anne L. Haley, says that this was right smack dab in the middle of the great Irish famine (1845-1852).

This is news. The same family tree has James Edwin Markham born in Rochester, NY. So there might not be a lot of point in visiting Belfast, NY, where James and Hannah (Hennessy) Markham settled. But we should do it, anyway.

Anne Haley has found Hannah Hennessy Markham, born 1830 in Ireland, buried in Holy Cross Cemetery in Belfast, NY in 1898. She was married to James Markham.

Other news: Leila's middle name was Browning, so I share that with her. I also found her mother Katherine Browning listed in other family trees as "Katherine J. Browning." Thus, even though the 1910 census has Katherine J. Markham listed as having both parents from Ireland, she could still be Katherine Browning Markham, rather than James E. Markham's widowed sister-in-law. Confusing info, however.

I'll keep looking for more info on the Irish connection. Though we have the name of the boat he came over on, we still don't know where James Markham really came from. I'll check out Hannah Hennessy, next.