Oh, goodness - what a heart warming story! I guess if you just keep plugging away, some times "miracles" happen! Surely an inspiration! Sue On 3/3/2013 10:41 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Bill, this is not really about Beara and so you can toss it if you want. > > While going thru railroad contracts for Irish in Nebraska, I came across a > contract for Charlie McCarthy. Knowing it was a neat name, I posted the > info on the McCarthy rootsweb site. He was born in Bantry, lived in a town > in Wisconsin before moving to Nebraska. > > Months later I got a hit from a lady in New York and she said that that > might be her great uncle Charles who had disappeared after the Civil War. I > sent a copy of it to her and she matched it with his signature when he > enlisted and this was surely her great Uncle Charles. Her grandfather had also > lived in the Wisconsin town and she was delighted to know that the family > had come from Bantry as she had no idea where in Ireland they had > originated. > > Her husband had promised her that if she ever knew where they were from, he > would take her to Ireland. So on the plane, his seat mate asked where > they were headed and he said Bantry. "Why Bantry" "Well, my wife just found > out her McCarthy family came from Bantry and we are going over to see the > McCarthy's" The lady said that they wouldn't have to go far because her > mother was a McCarthy and was on the plane as she was going over to Bantry for > her sister's birthday. > > The lady and her husband were invited to join them on the trip to Bantry. > Well, she never found out exactly which McCarthy she was from because the > parish priest said "the McCarthy's were just like rabbits". But she said > that they drank and danced for a whole weekend and felt very much like she > was home. > > Teresa Sullivan > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message