Person-by-person chronology
Dated records place family members in different countries. A later address does not, by itself, establish when or how someone travelled.
Evidence varies by person05 / A family moves outward · 1883–1904
Their world grew wider.
Home was still Leitrim.
Follow a child’s story. Keep Mary at the center.
Across these years: a family overview of 1883–1904, with a later glimpse of Thomas’s return in 1919/1920. Next, we return to Mary’s document of October 1904.
Generalized modern coastline · Natural Earth (public domain). County-level home marker; Scotland marker is regional. Lines connect places, not exact routes.
The home side of the story
Tullynascreen remains the reference point.
Mary’s records bring us back to the same Leitrim townland while her children’s lives reach into Scotland and America.
Connections show family geography, not recovered travel routes or the movement of letters and money.
Behind the record · 1883–1904
What connects these places?
Unknown outcomes
John, Patrick, the younger Martin and other incomplete paths remain named research questions.
Visible gapsWe do not yet know how often letters, money or visitors crossed these distances, or what each departure meant to Mary.