This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/UiH.2ACIB/173.1.3.3 Message Board Post: Dear Tom, It appears my last e-mail dissapeared when Ancestry updated on 18 Nov! It was good to hear from a Carmody elsewhere in the world, and that the spelling variation helped you. That variation is also what helped me get in contact with Karelle, who has already written to you. My great grandfather Tom CarmOdy [great name!] and her great grandfather Patrick CarmAdy were brothers, who when their mother died having twins in 1850, were sent [with their brothers and sisters] to their Uncle John Carmody to live. Their father Patrick appears in the records for a few years living in the same area, but after that we cannot seem to find him or proof of his death. Because of this family dislocation, neither of us have any oral history of the family handed down, and we only have the immigrant books for a record of Patrick and John's parents' names. Their father is definitely John, but Patrick did not give his mother's name, and John gave her as Bridget Carmody, which could be her married or single name, as the mothers' names were recorded either way and sometim! es wrongly altogether! Since Patrick was born in March, 1811 in Kilmurry or Kilmeany, [terrible writing in the immigrant book],Ennis, Clare and John abt 1812 near Ennis, Clare, I would assume their father John [a Farmer] was born before 1790 in the same area. As the Irish had quite strict naming patterns, we could still make a case for some relationship between us, as Patrick called his second daughter Margaret and one of the twins was James, both names in your family also. I definitely think we're related somewhere - maybe some more of our clan will come out of witness protection and shed light on the matter! Best Wishes, Jenny Vines