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From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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To: goffscalif{at}aol.com [mailto:goffscalif{at}aol.com]
>
>So it is entirely
> possible that someone born in 1903, when people who survived the
> Potato Famine would
> assuredly still be living (I don't remember the exact date of the
> Famine, but
> it was in the general neighborhood of 1840; using that date,
> someone 10 years
> old during the Famine would be 73 in 1903), and when the person
> born could be
> the third or even the second generation after the Famine and thus grow up
> surrounded by habits that grew from it.
>
The famine began in 1846, and continued for three years.  By the census of
1851, the population of Ireland had fallen to about 4 million, compared to
the 8 million of the census of 1841.  About half the missing people died,
the other half immigrated.

My grandfather told me the story of the Famine, listing the names of those
in the family who died -- and made me eat the peel of the potato,
"because people went hungry in Ireland."  It was his grandfather
who survived the Famine, coming first to Newfoundland, then Prince Edward
Island, and finally the United States.
>


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