Bernard Joseph McElroy was born in County Leitrim, Ireland, at 12 noon on Wednesday 25th May 1892. His twin sister, Matilda, was born at 4 p.m.. They were the last of a family of eight. He was 18 at the 1911 Census - he was 'Employed On Farm'.
He travelled from Liverpool to the US in 1913. At the US Census of 1915 he was working as a nurse at an asylum. He later joined the US Army and was killed in France in 1918, as were his sisters' husbands in 1915/16. (Researching this family unearths mostly sadness.)
When first travelling to the US, he gave his occupation as 'Policeman'. His father had been in the R.I.C.. His older brother tried to join but seems to have failed a medical. I don't know if he was in the R.I.C. or the Liverpool Police. I wonder if there is any record of members of the Liverpool Police from that time?
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There are records of the RIC on Ancestry with a few marked "Emigrated". As I can't see Bernard amongst the entries you may be right in thinking it was in England where he was a policeman.
MaryA Our Facebook Page
Names - Lunt, Hall, Kent, Ayre, Forshaw, Parle, Lawrenson, Longford, Ennis, Bayley, Russell, Longworth, Baile
Any census info in this post is Crown Copyright, from National Archives
Thanks, Mary. PRONI have the Jim Herlihy book that lists all R.I.C. men; I'll check that first. I got his father's details there, and noted his brother's by accident... didn't think to look for another one. After that I'll contact the museums.
