Hi Listers Seem to have hit a brick wall in tracing my roots back to Ireland. Have traced my gg-grandfather, Nicholas McAVOY b.1826 - Ireland (LDS Web site) and wife Ann MECKEN b.1828 - Ireland (LDS). They are shown to have moved to Egremont, Cumberland, England as iron ore miners and are on the 1881 Census there.(Not Nicholas who died in a mining accident 1870) I remember my father (now deceased) saying the family came from Cork. I have posted my interests on several Ireland &/or Cork Roots sites. I appreciate a lot of records were destroyed in Ireland but can anyone suggest how I might proceed from here.? Thanks in anticipation E-Mail: EddyOrion@aol.com Genealogist Researching: Eddy McAvoy Surname:-McAVOY McKEEN, WATSON. WALTON 10 Barbourne Close COCKBURN, DRUMMOND, Hillfield Cork, Lanarkshire, SOLIHULL.,West Midlands Cumberland, Northumberland & Durham B91 3TL