Back to My Routes ; We Holiday for Many Reasons. Charlotte Eagar's Trip to Arizona Was an Extraordinary Journey Into Her Family's Past

Evening Standard - London › October 18, 2006

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MY DISTANT cousin, Miss Eagar, was a governess to Tsar Nicholas II's daughters. Her memoirs ended with the tantalising line: "... in 1904, shortly after the Tsarevitch was born, I left the Imperial family for private reasons and returned to Ireland". I wanted to know what those reasons were and where she ended up.

On Google, up popped a town called Eagar, in Arizona. I dimly remembered my mother teasing my father about this as it was allegedly founded by some relations of his who were Mormons and wanted more wives than was acceptable in Anglo-Irish society.

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Back to My Routes ; We Holiday for Many Reasons. Charlotte Eagar's Trip to Arizona Was an Extraordinary Journey Into Her Family's Past

Eagar was founded 1888, with a population of 4,500, and is just over the border from Utah, the Mormon state, in Apache County. On Google there was a photograph of the founders, John Ea...

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