Most of my genealogy search on the Carroll's and Hennessey's have been concentrated on County Cork, Ireland because family lore has it that my great grandfather John Carroll and his wife Ellen Agnes Hennessey came form County Cork. However recently I have found a naturalization paper for John Carroll in Lafayette County, Wisconsin dated Nov. 4, 1864, where my great grandfather was living at the time. The naturalization paper said he was born in the County of Tipperary, Ireland and emigrated from Limerick and arrived at Springfield, Massachusetts in June of 1846. I checked the 1850 census for Massachusetts and found a John Carroll along with maybe 4 sibling sisters, Catherine, Margaret, Elisa, and Bridgett all in Chicopee, Hampden County, Massachuesetts (Chicopee would be like a suburb of Springfield). John married Ellen Agnes Hennessey, where I don't know , and they had their first child, Maria, in Cohoe Falls, Albany County, New York in 1859 and their 2nd child, John Martin, in 1861 also in Cohoe Falls. Their 3rd child, Agnes, was born in Platteville, Grant County, Wisconsin. Their 4th child died at birth and their 5th child, Josephine, was born in 1868 in Lafayette County, Wisconsin. Their 6th child, Henry my grandfather, was born in 1870 in Lafayette County, Wisconsin and their final child, Thomas, was born in 1872 in Lancaster, Grant County, Wisconsin where I was born and raised. I wrote to the Catholic Church in Cohoes, New York asking for record of marriage of John and Ellen, but they responded that their records were incomplete and they had had a fire in the past and some of the records were destroyed., so I am still searching for the marriage certificate, both in the U.S. and in Ireland, as I still don't know where the marriage took place. John died in 1909 and per his headstone and death certificate, he was born in 1837. Ellen died in 1909 and per her headstone and death certificate she was born in 1839. The natualization paper states he was 32 years old in 1864, but by death certificate he would have been 27 in 1864. The 1850 census shows John's age to be 19, but per his death certificate he would have been 13 in 1850. So as can be seen, I have conflicting age references. I have no source of where Ellen Hennessey came from in Ireland, other than family lore said she also came from County Cork. I checked with the Mallow Heritage Center in County Cork when I was enjoying Ireland in 1999 and they could fond no record of John or Ellen's marriage. John's father's name was also John and his mother's name may have been Rhyan. I have no information on Ellen's parents. Need help and luck. Larry