Millhallow?? Where Is It?

[racing girl]

This is from the 1881 English census from Family Search, trying to find out where young James Cairns was born. A contact has Millhallow, USA, but I can't find the family on the Castle Garden website on the US 1880 census. Can anyone decipher where he was born please? Where ever it was they can't have been there for very long, they were back in Durham for the 1881 census and didn't leave the area again.

Slater CAIRNS Head M Male 26 Cassop, Durham, England Coal Miner
Alice L. CAIRNS Wife M Female 26 Keloe, Durham, England
Robert CAIRNS Son U Male 4 Shotton, Durham, England
James H. CAIRNS Son U Male 1 Millhallow (British Subject) (Country NS)

Thanks,
Brenda

[Sue Mackay]

Looking at the original of the 1881, it appears to say MillHollow, British Subject, Country NS (presumably not stated)

The 1891 census gives James' birthplace as America

There is a Mill Hollow in Utah

[windmill]

Could not find a birth for James but found this information which might be of interest. I don't know if there yours but these have the same dates of birth as Slater Alice and James H Cairns

New York Passenger List Oct 1896 on the ship St Paul from Southampton UK

Alice Cairns aged 49 Wife
James H Cairns aged 17 Miner
Lousie Cairns aged 15 Servant
Elizabeth Cairns aged 10 Child
Jane Cairns aged 4 Child

Going to Winton PA

also

Philadelphia Pasenger List 21st June 1903 from Liverpool UK

Slater Cairns aged 48 occ (looks like either) Farmer or Fireman
Going to see Mrs Salter Cairns Place looks like Winton Pa
States he also came over to see his Brother in Law in 1888 cannot read
the name is looks like P. Doylie?

Windmill

[racing girl]

Thanks Sue and Windmill, most helpful info. I will dig about a bit for the American side, Pennsylvania is quite well represented online.


Brenda

[Sue Mackay]

Aha! try Luzerne, Pennsylvania - used to be called Mill Hollow

https://www.millhollowcafe.com/luzerne.html

[Sue Mackay]

Incoming passenger lists show a Slater Cairns (41) seaman on SS Haverford from Philadelphia to Liverpool, April 1903. The return trip as mentioned above by Windmill was on the Westernland and left Liverpool for Phildelphia on 10 June 1903. This time Slater Cairns is 48 years 8 months. I think the address of the 'brother-in-law' is actually for the passenger below. Slater Cairns seems to me travelling to his wife in Wehrum

[windmill]

Aha! try Luzerne, Pennsylvania - used to be called Mill Hollow

https://www.millhollowcafe.com/luzerne.html

WW2 Draft Card 1942

James Henry Cairns
Birth Date 7th Sept 1879
Birth place Luzerne Pennsylvania
Res Washington PA

Windmill

[racing girl]

Thanks ladies, really appreciate the extra information.

Brenda

[Alan Stephenson]

There is a Hollow Mill near Canonbie on the Scottish / English border. My 2 x gt grandfather Thomas Cairns was born there around 1844.
yours
Alan

[MissT64]

My dad's great, great grandmother is the Jane Cairns referenced here. She married William Smith who died, at 28, in the Eccles Mine Explosion on April 28, 1914 in West Virginia (USA).

I am looking for any information on where Slater Cairns and his wife Alice was born. I don't know Alice's maiden name. I was told they may have come over from Ireland or their parents were Irish but they were born in the UK. Perhaps the name is originally O'Cairns?

I have tried to find places that might have photos of them but have not had any luck.