Philadelphia Crowns

When we look at the five known children of Richard Crown and Sarah Meehan (Brigid, Cormac, Patrick, Richard, and John), only one of those five came, himself, to America, and that was my ancestor, Patrick Crown. Of the remaining children of Richard and Sarah, it was the grandchildren from three of the remaining four progeny, Brigid, Cormac, and Richard, who emigrated to the USA. It could well be that descendants of John Crown also emigrated at some point, but information on this branch of the family is, at this point, the most limited.

But even among those children who remained in Ireland, we are now finding that some of THEIR children emigrated to America at a later time. For example, one of the sons of Brigid Crown and Lacky Travers, Thomas, appears to have remained in Ireland. Thomas and wife Elizabeth McMorrow are thought to have had at least five children, three remained in Ireland, and the other two - the oldest and youngest girls, both nurses - emigrated to the Philadelphia region prior to July, 1931, when the sisters were both naturalized as American citizens. Both sisters, Bridget "Tressa" Travers Lynch, and Elizabeth Travers Doherty, married in America, and so far it appears that Tressa did not have children, but Elizabeth most definitely did. I'm still researching this line, but it seems apparent that Philadelphia was yet another settling destination for our American Crown's and their descendants.