Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . LIFE OF ANSON PHELPS STOKES ANDHELEN LOUISA (PHELPS) STOKES FROM THEIR MARRIAGE TO THE DEATH OF THEIR PARENTS1865 On October i8, 1865, the day after our wedding, we sailed forEurope on the steamer Persia. We left the steamer at Queenstown. This being the time of the Fenian scare, the authorities were veryparticular about strangers coming to Ireland from America. The visiting-list which had been used in sending out wedding invi-tations, etc., had by mistake been packed in my wifes tr
Stokes records; notes regarding the ancestry and lives of Anson Phelps Stokes and Helen Louisa (Phelps) Stokes . LIFE OF ANSON PHELPS STOKES ANDHELEN LOUISA (PHELPS) STOKES FROM THEIR MARRIAGE TO THE DEATH OF THEIR PARENTS1865 On October i8, 1865, the day after our wedding, we sailed forEurope on the steamer Persia. We left the steamer at Queenstown. This being the time of the Fenian scare, the authorities were veryparticular about strangers coming to Ireland from America. The visiting-list which had been used in sending out wedding invi-tations, etc., had by mistake been packed in my wifes trunk. Mywife also had with her a journal, in which many names two books attracted the attention of the English soldiers, andcaused us to be detained for some time on the tugboat, at 2 , whilethe list and journal were examined by the light of a lantern. We went by jaunting-car to Blarney Castle, where I kissed theBlarney Stone,^ and to the Lakes of Killarney. Thence we went toDublin and to Liverpool. At my uncles house, Aigburth, my cousinElizabeth read us, from a letter she had received, a
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