Starting every day with queries to the UK for identification of Deever ancestors.
Our DNA shows that the most likely locations for ancestral activity was in Scotland, Wales, Ireland and a tiny bit of adjoining England.
Today, I contacted a researcher in Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire, England. We'll see what she has to say.
The attached image is of the disaster of the rail bridge over the River Dee in Chester, Wales - May 24, 1847. (The cause was alleged to be weak cast iron beams . . . 5 deaths.)