Dear Christine, By what I can see, you have done a tremendous amount of researching. The trouble is that, as far as you are concerned, the only record of the above in the Allihies Parish re the Reentrisk area of the Beara Peninsula in which Daniel O'Sullivan & Hanora Hanley resided, and that the only child they had there was a Daniel in November 1831. Other children could have been born to those parents before 1831, but the Allihies records only go back only so far. There is no record of Daniel & Hanora residing in any other part of the Beara Peninsula, so the family must have emigrated to the States some years before the Famine in Ireland. They weren't the only ones who had emigrated from the Reentrisk area (and from many other Parishes) before the Famine of 1845 etc., so it could be open to surmise that there wasn't another Famine in Ireland before the 1845, etc. one. Interesting. The potatoes failed in 1845 etc., but who is to say that there may not have been another Famine before that, for some other reason ? Another thing is that people here spoke Irish/Gaelic only in those times, and often when people like "Customs" asked them for their names, the "Customs" man or woman wrote down what they thought they heard, instead of what was actually told to them. Also, people in those times married people from around their own places at home when they got to the States. I hope that this may be of some help to you. Riobard. -- Riobard (O'Dwyer)