Eleanor Chesnut and her twin brother, James, were born in Waterloo, Iowa, in the United States of America in 1868, to Eleanor and James Chesnut. James had left Derrylaghan, Kilcar (south-west Donegal) in 1858 to join the stream of emigration to America in the aftermath of the Great Famine a decade earlier. Having been orphaned…
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