Liz: Note also figure leaning from upstairs window....

2012-03-20T02:06:33Z

Note also figure leaning from upstairs window....

Mouser: This picture was scanned from the personal archives of Sylvia Louise Langan. She provided the following comments to go along with the photo: "Sylvia's [ed. probably Nina's] great grandfather emigrated from Macclesfield, England to Philadelphia. His f

2011-11-29T23:30:23Z

This picture was scanned from the personal archives of Sylvia Louise Langan. She provided the following comments to go along with the photo: "Sylvia's [ed. probably Nina's] great grandfather emigrated from Macclesfield, England to Philadelphia. His f

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This picture was scanned from the personal archives of [[Sylvia Louise Langan]]. She provided the following comments to go along with the photo:

"Sylvia's [ed. probably Nina's] great grandfather emigrated from Macclesfield, England to Philadelphia. His family had been part of the Irish outmigration from Ireland to England, where the Catholics were treated less nastily. This ancestor was an attic weaver, rather than a textile factory operative. Evidently he could run well, and someone sponsored his one-way passage to Philadelphia to run in a race. He won that race, but his sponsor didn't come forth with the fare home... I guess he ran this hotel/boarding house to scrabble together a living. Are the tiny figures in the doorway him & his wife? Don't know. What's his name? Not sure. It might have been Montgomery. (My father is Thomas Montgomery Langan, and I think his father was Montgomery Thomas Langan)."

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	This picture was scanned from the personal archives of [[Sylvia Louise Langan]]. She provided the following comments to go along with the photo:		This picture was scanned from the personal archives of [[Sylvia Louise Langan]]. She provided the following comments to go along with the photo:

−	"Sylvia's [ed. probably Nina's] great grandfather emigrated from Macclesfield, England to Philadelphia. His family had been part of the Irish ~~outmigration~~ from Ireland to England, where the Catholics were treated less nastily. This ancestor was an attic weaver, rather than a textile factory operative. Evidently he could run well, and someone sponsored his one-way passage to Philadelphia to run in a race. He won that race, but his sponsor didn't come forth with the fare home... I guess he ran this hotel/boarding house to scrabble together a living. Are the tiny figures in the doorway him & his wife? Don't know. What's his name? Not sure. It might have been Montgomery. (My father is Thomas Montgomery Langan, and I think his father was Montgomery Thomas Langan)."	+	"Sylvia's [ed. probably Nina's] great grandfather emigrated from Macclesfield, England to Philadelphia. His family had been part of the Irish out-migration from Ireland to England, where the Catholics were treated less nastily. This ancestor was an attic weaver, rather than a textile factory operative. Evidently he could run well, and someone sponsored his one-way passage to Philadelphia to run in a race. He won that race, but his sponsor didn't come forth with the fare home... I guess he ran this hotel/boarding house to scrabble together a living. Are the tiny figures in the doorway him & his wife? Don't know. What's his name? Not sure. It might have been Montgomery. (My father is Thomas Montgomery Langan, and I think his father was Montgomery Thomas Langan)."<br>Note also the figure leaning from upstairs window, proprietorially over the sign.

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Liz: Note also figure leaning from upstairs window....

Mouser: This picture was scanned from the personal archives of Sylvia Louise Langan. She provided the following comments to go along with the photo: "Sylvia's [ed. probably Nina's] great grandfather emigrated from Macclesfield, England to Philadelphia. His f