Bonnie Your question is very familiar to me. I have 3 southwest Cork families who moved to the coal/ Iron towns of south Wales and later to Pittsburgh. They were entirely independent and joined in Pittsburgh. There were a large number of west Corkers who came to South Wales 1845- 1880. A bunch more went to the Wilkes Barre- Scranton and Mercer County areas of Pa and Youngstown Ohio area. Most of these 2nd migrations happened between 1865-1885. The reason for the second migration was the growing steel and coal industries at this time. The south wales iron works were losing market share to the US. The first ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil/ Dowlais closed in 1859. In addition to closures/mass layoffs there was labor strife etc. Although my prime Buckley family was married and had most of their children in Merthyr Tydfil they had one child in London area in 1863 and another in Bedford England in 1869. They returned to Merthyr shortly after each birth. I chalk each of these trips and the ultimate to Pittsburgh as a search for work to feed the family. My pieces of my family came to Pittsburgh from south Wales between 1871 and 1880. The reason they went to Wales during or slightly after Famine was a) familiarity and b) very low cost on coal ships returning from Kinsale, Skibbereen, Clonakilty and a few other small ports as well as the obvious Cobh. I hope that gives you something to consider on the bid picture. John (son of a Buckley) researching BUCKLEY, SCANNELL, HAYES, HARRINGTON, DRISCOLL, GOGGIN, CARTY, DONOHOE, DONOHUE On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 8:46 PM, <Irishdancr@aol.com> wrote: > Hi Cath, > I have a line from John Morris Harrington, born 1866 in Dowlais, to Timothy >  Harrington and Mary Margaret Donovan Harrington. Timothy was born circa > 1840 in  Cork.  Based on the children I'm guessing they were married about > 1855,  with first known child born 1856 in Merthyr Tidfil, Wales. > Back to John - he married my GGM's sister, Margaret Parker 1889 in Fulham, > MDX outside London. John was a Grenadier Guard, and had been in the Welsh > Boarder Guard. By 1898 the family immigraded to Pennsylvania, where I am > still  in touch with John's GGdaughter. > > Should any of this sound familiar, I have more to share. > BTW, Harrington is the second most common name in Beara area, so could be a >  needle in the haystack. > Bonnie > > > **************Great deals on Dell’s most popular laptops – Starting at > $479 > (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1220029082x1201385915/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doubleclick.net%2Fclk%3B213969145%3B35701480%3Bh) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message