James and his wife Nancy Mulroy came on the Robinson Expedition around 1829 from Liverpool. Nancy's data says she was from Ashbrook Townland, County Mayo. Her father, Richard Mulroy was born in Ashbook in 1777 and died there in 1848.
James Jennings and Nancy Mulroy married in County Mayo before 1829 when their daughter Mary was board. Their second child, David, was born in Syracuse, NY.
They have four more children before James died early and Nancy took to children by oxcart across the country to Wisconsin to join her sister, Mary who lived with her husband John Foy, also of Mayo, in Hortonia, Wisconsin.
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| Date of Birth | 1st Jan 1801 | |
| Date of Death | 1st Jan 1855 | |
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1830
May Day traditions across Ireland
1st May 1830
1820
First Ordnance Survey Maps of Ireland begins
1st Jan 1825