William Joseph Barth (born 1925), a son of William Peter Barth and Hulda Lovisa Malmberg, was born in Iowa. He married Patricia Ann Hickey (born 1928), a daughter of Russell Thomas Hickey and Alice Margaret Robinson, in 1952. They had five children. The book gives the ancestry of both William and Patricia.
The Ellis family descends from Christopher Ellis (1673-1732) of Prince George's County, Maryland. Descendants moved west to Ohio where James Ellis, Jr. settled in Brown County, Ohio. Descendants settled in Ohio, Indiana and other parts of midwestern United States.
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This edition of Cormac O'Grada's study expands upon his central arguments about the agricultural and demographic developments surrounding the Great Irish Famine. It provides new statistical information, new appendices and integrated responses to the new research and writing on the subject that has appeared since the publication of the first edition in 1987.