Hello Gerald Read your post with interest as I have a BAILEY name associated with my COLLINS family and have no earlier details on it. - Elizabeth J. BAILEY is widowed, designated as a sister of the widow Sarah COLLINS and lives with her in Philly in the 1880 US census. She is age 68 (born 1811/12) Ireland which was two years younger than Sarah in that census. Their parents also born in Ireland. - Sarah _________ (abt 1812 Ireland - 29 May 1891 Philadelphia, PA) married 1839-45 in USA to William Clarke COLLINS (1804 Desertcreat Parish, Cookstown area, Tyr. - 22 Mar 1868 Philadelphia, PA). Marriage may be William C. COLLINS & Sarah Collins on 5 Nov 1840 in Marshall Co., Tenn. by D.B. Bells, Minister of the Gospel. There were many BAILEY families in that county in the 1840 US census and William COLLINS and at least one of his male cousins was known to have been there in that time frame. They lived in Philly where he was a commission merchant in wholesale food items. Six children known of whom only William survived to maturity, married but no children are known. Using census returns 1850 to 1880, Sarah's DOB is 1822, 1815, 1815, 1810. I would like to learn the maiden name of these two sisters. I assume that Sarah's surname of Collins in the marriage record is simply the application of her husband's name as was standard in Ch. of Eng. parishes in that time frame. The above William COLLINS had an uncle and aunt William & Theresa COLLINS and cousins living at Donaghenry, Tyr. Looking forward to hearing from you. John Collins in Sarnia, Ont., Canada ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 19:20:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Gerald Bailey <g.bailey3308@sbcglobal.net> Subject: [CoTyIre] Records for William Bailey To: Kimberly McCord via <cotyroneireland@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <1733260783.21860.1438629628001.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 My name is Gerald Bailey and I am looking for info on William Bailey and family who came to the US on about 1828. I think that he may have lived in the Donaghenry Parish in Ireland. He had a brother David Bailey a few years younger and came to New York about two years before William. I am trying to learn just where in Ireland William Bailey lived and if any of the family is still in Ireland. William Bailey? was born about 1800 and married a Jane? Can you help? Gerry ------------------------------