The family mistakenly sailed into Newry by mistake, but it was a journey that would prove crucial to their survival decades later
Newry in the 1890s was a growing port town with a busy canal, railway and a town hall under construction.
"There was a consular in Newry called Stokes and he helped all the people who came from other countries who couldn't speak English.Lill began tracing her roots in the mid 1990s, when her children bought her a family tree as a birthday present. But on 1 August, 1906 it was the setting for the wedding of Joseph Mendle and Flossie Freeman - Lill's grandparents.A marriage certificate shows that Lill's grandparents were married at Mill Street and a birth certificate shows that Elsie was born in on Kilmorey Terrace
A copy of Elsie's birth record issued in 1929 highlights her date of birth as 18 August 1909 and her residence as 7 Kilmorey Terrace.But it was events some 33 years later around 750 miles away in Oslo that would highlight the importance of documents like this.
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