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Photo Album: My Grandfather, the Diver

Submitted by George Kelnhofer, Doylestown, PA
March / April 2019

March 1, 2019 by 2 Comments

Patrick Killen with his daughter, Margaret, and son, Joseph Patrick, 1934.

My grandfather, Patrick Joseph Killen, (“Pop”), was born in Downpatrick, County Down, in 1897. He sailed with his sister Margaret for America in 1911, and arrived in New York on his 14th birthday. Many of his family were already here, but, sadly for him, his older sister Mary stayed behind, and he would not see her again for 57 years. In 1920, Patrick received his Certificate … [Read more...] about Photo Album: My Grandfather, the Diver

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