James (Pop) McCallion's brothers

Fran Miller is the granddaughter of Pop's (James McCallion's) younger brother Michael, who dies tragically in a trolley accident in NYC in 1913.

Fran has put me in contact with Paul McCallion, grandson of James's older brother John. John stayed in Donegal, and his grandson Paul is still in the Lifford area.

From Paul: "This my Grandparents and Father taken in the 20s. Your grandmother was in our Great Grandparents house on the night of the 1911 census with her first 2 children while James was already in the USA. I am the second youngest of a family of 10 born in 1964. "

"This picture is of Patrick McCallion and his wife Helena and Daughter. Patrick is very like your grandfather his brother"

Helena's maiden name is Leonard, I wonder if any relation to the Leonards that marry into the Meehans?

We've seen the marriage cert before but Paul's comment is of interest:

"This is the marriage cert for your grandparents. He was a agent for Singer sewing machines and she was a seamstress so maybe they met over a Thread."

The cert says "machine agent", I just didn't know that meant an agent for Singer sewing machines. 

One of James's later forms lists him as an insurance agent, plus all the 'engineer' entries we see on the U.S. census.

"I believe this is our great grandparents James McCallion and Mary Hagney who married in Murlog in 1874. Mary was from Falcarragh and probably came to the hiring fair in Strabane."