Birmingham Memories

  BIRMINGHAM: My IRISH Ancestry This is an abbreviated version of the story of my Birmingham ancestors from Ireland and their first generation immigrants. For the complete story go to my book of the same title published in 2021. My Birmingham family was traced back to the 1730s in Dublin where my 4 th great grandparents, Laurence and Mary Birmingham lived. Laurence and Mary Birmingham had three sons, John, and twins Laurence and Burke, all baptized at Saint Catherine’s Roman Catholic Church on Meath Street in Dublin. John Birmingham is my 3 rd great grandfather. He was born about 1760. Around 1780 John and Susannah Cruise , of English descent, would marry at Saint Michan’s Roman Catholic Church on North Anne Street in Dublin. They had at least five children between 1781 and 1795; Francis, John, William, Anne and Marie. All were baptized at Saint Michan’s. Their third-born son, William Birmingham , is my 2 nd great-grandfather. William was baptized on May 7, 1787. William...

THE BIRMINGHAMS: A FAMILY HISTORY (1809 - 2013) documents the immigration of my paternal great grandparents, Daniel Birmingham and Ellen Collins, from Ireland to Baltimore Maryland in the 1830's and eventually to Cumberland Maryland where they raised their eight children, including my grandfather, Daniel Collins Birmingham. Around 1895 Daniel Collins would move to Pittsburgh Pennsylvania where he would meet his wife, Mary Rodgers. They would eventually settle in the Mt. Washington section of the city where they would raise my father, Daniel James and his sister Mary Rodgers. In 1887 Louis Buchner and his wife Thekla would leave Bavaria Germany for the United States. After a few years in Boston they would also move to Pittsburgh and make their home in Mt. Washington and raise their four surviving children, including my maternal grandfather, Andrew Buchner. In 1913 Andrew would marry Nellie Miller and they would raise their three children, including my mother Helen Marie, in Mt. Wash...