This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/nVF.2ACIB/804 Message Board Post: My ancestor was Cornelius Boyle, born about 1840 in Donegal and married about 1870 to Annie Sweeney. Came to Wilkes-Barre about 1870 and lived on Scott Street, East End. Cornelius was a local politician and he and Annie had 6 children: James A. (1873-1953) m. Nellie Shea Mary Theresa (!877-1957) m. Patrick O'Donnell Anna (1878-?), m. Thomas Reed, moved to Detroit Katie (1880-1911), m. Essex Williams Sue (1887-1961) never married John A. (1890-?), m. Margaret McCombs, moved to Detroit. Annie Sweeney Boyle died in 1899 in Wilkes-Barre. Cornelius married Margaret Lyons McLaughlin in 1901 and had one daughter, Jeannette, in 1902. Cornelius died in 1907 in Wilkes-Barre. Also related to Fr. Brendan Boyle, a Passionist priest, and to the Reinert (sp?) family from Wilkes-Barre.