My paternal grandfather, Christopher CLEAR, immigrated from County Wexford, Ireland to Ontario Canada about 1847. He was born 1839 or 40. He died when I was very young, and there was never much said about him, except the Irish background. He did have an older brother, Patrick Joseph, b. 1820 .He settled in Toronto,Can., where he worked for a number of years boating on the Grand river,, after wards, to Lucan,Ontario where he took up farming .In 1858, he married Mary Ann Bennett at St Joseph's Catholic in Lucan, a son,Thomas was born in 1859, and he was married again in 1868 to Mary Owens., two more children, Mary and Patrick, were born,in Lucan.,before coming to Palo Alto Co., Iowa in 1873. My grandfather did not marry until 1875, in Iowa. Because of his tender age ,I have had more success locating the trail of Patrick, but what I would like to know is about parents and siblings. Did they come to America, or stay behind? The location, town or village in Ireland where they lived , point of entry to Canada and also port of embarkation in Ireland. My information has been found in , family Bible, obituaries, and more recently at Family Search, LDS. I realize this is long, but thought it might help to know what I do have on the family With many thanks, Gladys Clare Wilcox.