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Over 140 years ago John Ellis and Winifred Noone left County Galway, Ireland, and embarked on their separate journeys across the Atlantic Ocean. About 1852, John traveled with his family to Canada. Then, leaving his family behind, he continued his journey by way of New York and Panama to the western United States. John Ellis worked as a gold miner in northen California and Florence, Idaho, before arriving in the Boise Basin in 1864.
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from county galway, ireland to the boise basin, idaho
"John Noone's trip had been a long and tedious one because of bad weather and shortage of food. He landed in Sacramento and went into Shasta County, where he engaged in placer mining. When the spring of 1864, he left Florence with Michael Leary and John and Patrick Noone, arriving shortly thereafter in the Boise Baisin."
She was from Gort, County Galway, Ireland. When her parents died, she went to Massachusetts to live with her sister.
WINIFRED NOONE
WIFE OF JOHN ELLIS
His journey to the Boise Basin began as a boy when his family left county Galway, Ireland.
JOHN NOONE
HUSBAND OF WINIFRED
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