Career
The family left Cork in 1869 to move to Egremont in Cheshire, England. The family moved again in 1878 to nearby Liverpool with its greater Irish population. Henry himself left home just a few years later.
He arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1888, shortly before his twenty-first birthday.
Arthur returned with David, another brother, in 1898 but died in January 1899 having established his name as a noted California painter. David became an assayer in Sonora before starting an import-export firm.
Henry married Daisy Howard, and took her to England in 1900. They returned with two more family members, Elsie and Ernest.
Ernest stayed for only eighteen months, returning to England in 1901 for Christmas with the family.
He then took a position in Portuguese Said, Egypt for three years, and returned to California in February, 1905. The remainder of the family, including the parents, Georgina and Henry, and the eldest girl, Marion, arrived in 1908.
