I+m looking for information on the family of Maurice Boyle and Margaret Christopher. Maurice Boyle raised his family in thre village of Knockaraha near Ballymacarberry. Maurice Boyle+s children were: Thomas Boyle m. Nora Dineen Maurice Boyle m. unknown Patrick Boyle (b ca 1837) m. Brigid Morrissey Nora Boyle m. William Connors John Boyle m. Mary Dalton Hallinan Catherine Boyle m. Michael O+Keefe Margaret Boyle became Sister Boniface Johanna Boyle became Sister Callista Mary Boyle became Sister Odilla ? Boyle became Sister Collette Half of his children remained in Ireland. The son Maurice married but was childress; he became a US Citizen, settled in New York and was buried in Boston. John Boyle emigrated but did not like America, so he returned home, got married and lived the remainder of his life in Ireland. The four sisters who entered the convent were stationed and buried in Kentucky; the others raised their children in Ireland. As these children grew up, many of them came to the US and settled for the most part in Massachussetts (Boston and Framingham). My grandmother Mary Boyle Hoar was born in Knockmeal, Kilronin, Ballymacarbry District; her parents were Patrick Boyle and Brigid Morrissey from Ballinagulkee, married at Touraneena in 1865. At least two of her siblings were born in Ballinagulkee, District of Cappoquin. Mary Boyle Hoar, her twin sister Margaret Boyle Fitzgerald and brother James settled in Yonkers. Two siblings-- Maurice Boyle and Nora Boyle-- were alive in Ireland when Mary Hoar died in 1938.