Hello Linda We have a lot of common names and I wonder if we are related. I will do the broad brush version first and then get into the detail later if need be. I have quite a lot of detail of the various people if it turns out we have a connection. 1. Pye connection? My grandmother was Martha Coventry (nee Hennessy) - her parents were John Hennessy and Catherine (Connor). Martha had an older sister Katherine who married a Pye (Katherine became my mother Ann's adored "Auntie Katie Pye"). 2. O'Brien connection? Martha married John Coventry whose parents were John Coventry and Ann O'Brien - Ann was born in Scotland but her parents were both Irish born and they lived in Kirkdale, Liverpool. 3. Foster connection? Martha had a son Joseph (my mother's younger brother) who married May (I think Mary originally) Foster - they are both still living in Liverpool (maybe Aughton?). 4. And the strange connection between us is that my mother Ann Coventry married Lawson Burns...but he was born in Glasgow and then came to New Zealand as a boy so this name has to be a red herring in all this lot! So what do you think? I look forward to hearing from you. Kind regards Marilyn (New Zealand) >>> [email protected] 16/10/2004 8:50:53 a.m. >>> Hello Interests: DAY - Ireland, Tranmere, Birkenhead BURNS - Shropshire, Birkenhead Related interests: PYE - mainly Liverpool, Aughton,Southport MORAN - Liverpool, Southport FOSTER - Warrington, Southport O'BRIEN/BRIEN - Liverpool Thanks Linda ==== BIRKENHEAD Mailing List ==== Our list Web site with links useful for Wirral genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~liverpool/BIRKENHEAD-WIRRAL.html ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >>> [email protected] 16/10/2004 8:50:53 a.m. >>> Hello Interests: DAY - Ireland, Tranmere, Birkenhead BURNS - Shropshire, Birkenhead Related interests: PYE - mainly Liverpool, Aughton,Southport MORAN - Liverpool, Southport FOSTER - Warrington, Southport O'BRIEN/BRIEN - Liverpool Thanks Linda ==== BIRKENHEAD Mailing List ==== Our list Web site with links useful for Wirral genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~liverpool/BIRKENHEAD-WIRRAL.html ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237