South Yorkshire Times April 13, 1957

Emigrating To USA
Two Wombwell Girls Will Travel Together

Two young Brampton girls bent on adventure will next month be leaving their homes and families to carve out new lives for themselves in America.

They are Miss Bernadette Lyons (Swinton), younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Martin Lyons, 12 Wynmore Crescent, and Miss Geraldine Early (19), fifth daughter of Mr and Mrs Dominic Early 14 Brampton St.

Although these two girls have known each other for years and attended the same schools, it is nothing more than coincidence that they have decided to emigrate at the same time.

Geraldine had originally booked passage on the “Britannic” which is due to sail later this month, but on hearing that Bernadette was also going to America she exchanged her booking for one on the same ship in which Bernadette will make the journey.

There was now travel together on the “Scaythia,” leaving Liverpool on Saturday, May 18, and expect to dock at New York eight days later.

Bernadette is on the staff of Barnsley Beckett hospital, where she qualified as a State Registered Nurse last October. She attended St Joseph’s Catholic School, Wath and St Michael’s School, Low Valley, and took up nursing five years ago. She will follow the same career at the other side of the Atlantic, and although at the moment she has no job to go to, she is informed that registered nurses are about $14 (approximately £4.18 s) a day.

Miss  Lyons, one of five children of Mr Mrs Lyons, is to settle at Philadelphia with her uncle, Mr John Lyons. A native of County Mayo, Ireland, Mr John Lyons lived for some time in Wombwell, but emigrated over 50 years ago. Now aged 75 and a retired steel worker, he  is a widower with four sons and three daughters. During the whole of the 50 years the two families have corresponded regularly with each other.

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