Notes on Our Genealogy

My great-grandfather Thomas Steven Quaid emigrated from Limerick, Ireland in the 1880s. Ultimately three of his siblings would make similar journeys. Or let's say  analogous journeys -- none of them were at all similar. After Thomas came his sister Anna Bridget Quaid , then later John Pier Quaid , and the last of them was the youngest sister Esther Quaid. Esther Quaid (1882-1913) Esther was born April 8th, 1882 to Mary Nealon and Charles Quaid. The family called her Essie. Charles was a pig buyer , and the family was then living in the house on Nelson Street that would house Quaids for another 70 years. Thomas was 16 and already had a foot out the door. As a child Esther most likely attended the Presentation School, the girls' school down the block on Sexton Street, like her sister Anna Bridget. Her brothers definitely attended the boys' school next door, but the records of the Presentation School aren't available online. Esther, seated, in Limerick. The back says: &q