This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCann, Dougherty Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/nVF.2ACIB/861 Message Board Post: I am looking for information about my great great great grandparents. All we have is that they were both probably born in Ireland in the late 1700's and came to the US. Sons Hugh McCann and Heney McCann were born in New York in 1827 and 1828. Four other children were born in New Jersey, Mary in 1825 or 1829, Margaret in 1832, Isabelle in 1838, and Michael/Michel in 1834. The 1830 New Jersey census, Bergen County, Jersey City, lists a Thomas McCan with 2 sons under 5, one daughter in the 5 to 10 yr, range, a wife, and another male member of the household. Bridget Dougherty McCann appears as a witness at her daughter's marriage in Dec. of 1846 in Dungannon, Ohio, and Hugh McCann appears as godfather for his niece, Bridget Boyle, in 1848 in Ohio. The McCanns resurface for the 1850 census in Wisconsin, Brown County, Lansing Township under the spelling McKans, but Thomas McCann is not in evidence. We have no idea if he died in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, or Wisconsin. I seek any information or any advise about searching for them. Thank you. Mary at meawantang@hotmail.com.