In June 1895, Julia O’Keef Twohig, wife of William J. Twohig, arrived in Philadelphia on the SS Kensington, with daughter Mary and sons Jeremiah and my grandfather Cornelius.

 

On arrival in Philadelphia Pennsylvania the family may have lived in North Philadelphia for a short time and later in the Old City section of Center City Philadelphia.  Some time in the early 1900’s they all moved to North Camden, New Jersey. 

 

Philadelphia was growing at a fast pace during this time.  A major construction project, the building of the Delaware River Bridge, opened in 1926 and in later renamed the Benjamin Franklin Bridge in 1956.  It was the largest suspension bridge in the world at that time and it linked Old City Philadelphia PA. with Camden NJ., replacing the older ferry service between the two cities.  This construction may have forced the family relocation to Camden.

 

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Philadelphia has another connection with Macroom Ireland.  William Penn, founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, son of Sir William Penn, an English Admiral, lived with his family in Macroom Castle in the 1650’s.  A statue of William Penn sits on top of Philadelphia’s city hall building.

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