{"id":145846,"date":"2025-05-31T04:07:38","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T04:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145846\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T04:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T04:07:38","slug":"belfast-mullen-familys-canada-reunion-after-120-years-triggered-by-unexpected-dna-discovery-on-ancestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/145846\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast: Mullen family&#8217;s Canada reunion after 120 years triggered by unexpected DNA discovery on Ancestry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Records revealed how four brothers shipped in Home Children wave\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Keith Mullen and his wife Diane (right) joined five relatives from Canada to reconnect and celebrate their roots in the Crown Bar.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1748664458_693_9a36e9a9-1984-4818-a44a-28c35caf6d5f.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Keith Mullen and his wife Diane (right) joined five relatives from Canada to reconnect and celebrate their roots in the Crown Bar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Before the Titanic was even an idea, four brothers set sail to Canada as part of the \u2018Home Children\u2019 wave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Now, more than 120 years later, their descendants have met in Belfast following a lifetime of uncertainty about their heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Records revealed how four brothers shipped in Home Children wave Keith Mullen and his wife Diane (right) joined&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145847,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[2378,105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-145846","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-healthcare","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114600479622584403","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}