I am an Australian researcher seeking information about my great-great-grandparents JOHN FOGARTY and MARGARET BROPHY and their kin. Six Fogarty-Brophy children were christened in Templemore Catholic parish in County Tipperary during 1831-44. The first was my great-grandfather John. His entry in the baptismal register gave the family`s place of residence as Old Town Templemore. It seems very likely the father had a brother named James in Queen`s County married to Catherine Campion. For whatever reason, there seems to have been movement of members of the Fogarty-Brophy family from the Templemore area to the Durrow area in Queen`s County. My great-grandfather`s brother Michael was christened in Templemore Catholic parish in 1836 with the family`s place of residence being given as Ballaheen. Michael became a member of the British Army`s 40th Regiment of Foot, from which he deserted in Melbourne in 1858. In 1864 he married Alice Carr at Warwick in the Darling Downs area in Queensland. Michael and Alice became residents of nearby Leyburn. John and Michael`s sister Mary whose birth and christening have not been traced came to Melbourne in 1858 by the ship “Rodney” and in 1862 married Francis Arter in Melbourne. My great-grandfather John Fogarty married my great-grandmother Margaret Kennedy in the Toomevara area in County Tipperary in 1870. The marriage registration said the groom`s father was John Fogarty, farmer, deceased. My great-grandparents and their children emigrated in 1878. John Fogarty`s papers said his parents were both deceased. My great-grandparents and their children arrived in Sydney in January 1879 by the ship “Northampton”. The family reached Wagga in southern New South Wales by 1880. My great-grandfather became a gardener with the Wagga council. No other Fogarty-Brophy child is known to have come to Australia. Intriguingly, Mary Fogarty`s emigration records had her as a native of Queen`s County ( known to the Irish as County Laois ). Brother Michael`s entry in a list of deserters published in the Victorian “Police Gazette” said he had enlisted in Queen`s County. Another 40th Regiment soldier is also of interest to me. A Kieran Fogarty born in 1839 at Ballykealy in the Durrow area in County Laois served with the 40th Regiment in Victoria from 1860 until 1863 and then was in New Zealand until 1865. He eventually returned to Ireland and took a wife and raised a family. Records state that Kieran`s parents were James Fogarty and Catherine Campion. Kieran had an older brother named Andrew who became a resident of Victoria by 1861. I entertain the idea that Andrew too was a 40th Regiment man. James Donohoe`s book “The British Army in Australia 1788 - 1870: Index of personnel” says there were an Andrew, a Kerin and a Michael Fogarty serving in Australia with the 40th Regiment during the 1852-60 period. Regards, Andrew Fogarty Casino N.S.W. Australia --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com