Michael, Thank you for that, your experience with the manifests of several ships gives me some confidence. All that I need to know now is how and why they came via Glasgow, surely a long way from Derrygonnelly, Co. Fermanagh. Do you have any spare Cassidys around? My grandmother was a Susan Cassidy. According to her marriage certificate she was from Derrygonnelly also, her father was a Samuel Cassidy, a "Valuator" in Ireland and her mother was a Margaret Hutton. Can't find any sign of any of them. Can't even find how Susan came to Australia. Family lore says that she came a maid to a Medical Doctor and family to Melbourne, but every family story so far has been shown to be a figment of someone's imagination, probably my Irish grandfather who undoubtedly had the "gift of the gab". :-) Regards, Peter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Cassidy" <cassidy@panix.com> To: "Peter Dolan" <dolan@pnc.com.au> Cc: <Y-IRL@yahoogroups.com>; "AUS-IRISH" <AUS-IRISH-L@rootsweb.com>; "Donegal" <DONEGALEIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 3:22 AM Subject: Re: [Y-IRL] Re: [DONEGAL] Irish ports - Moville > At 9:43 AM +1100 3/11/03, Peter Dolan wrote: > >The idea of ships leaving Glasgow, picking up passengers at Moville/Lough > >Foyle raises the question of what the ship's manifest would have shown as > >their point of embarkation, Glasgow(Greenock) of Moville (Lough Foyle) or > >??? > My cassidy came in 1871 and did all the stops. Each point of departure on > the several ships I looked at show which port they passengers boarded. > > regards > m > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > Jazz is freedom. - T. Monk > http://www.panix.com/~cassidy > > >