Thanks so much to Cousin Robert and to Peter from Sydney for your wisdom and responses. I feel confident we are on the right track of the Barry, Troy's and Lynch's now. Ironically the town my parents and I grew up in is called Barry, Illinois ( 26 miles from Quincy) which was misspelled after Barre, Vermont. Anyway, I have looked alot on the internet via ancestry.com and familysearch for connections and not really found much on Danahy's or other family names. I have received the CountyCork list for about two months and just watched how and what people were communicating. I have Johanna's death certificate and Denis Dananahy's,too. He lists her maiden name as Mahoney but when he died, his daughter thought her mother 's name was really Johana Cashman. Family verbal history came down that Johannah had been orphaned and raised by a family named Cashman. This is what I know about Johanna Mahoney without consulting my scant notes. She was born near Quincy Ill in 1855 to Bridget and Daniel Mahoney who were living with James and Margaret Mahoney and Mary and Louisa Cashman in the 1850 census near Quincy. I suspect Mary Cashman may have been Margaret Mahoney's mother. Bridget's maiden name was Downey. The men were 33 and 31, Margaret was around 30 and Bridget was young--like 22???. None of these people appear in the 1860 census except for Johanna and maybe Mary Cashman. In 1860 census in Melrose Township near Quincy,Ill.--same area and could be same land as I have never quite checked appears Daniel and Bridget CASHMAN with a nine year old son, six year old Joanna, and three more adult male Cashmans---Patrick, James and--I forget the third one. Now Daniel and Bridget Cashman are NOT the same people as Daniel and Bridget Mahoney as the family story says Johanna parents died and the ages are way wrong. When Johanna married Denis in 1870's she says her name is Johanna Mahoney. There is a Mary Cashman whose age I forget living with the Cashmans but she is a grandmother age. I have not found these Cashmans in any other census so far or the Mahoneys........ A James Mahoney who was living in Portland?,Connecticut bought land near Quincy in 1847 or 1848 and then sold some to Patrick Mahoney so these men must be related to Daniel and James Mahoney but Daniel is listed as owning the land in 1850. I got this from old land transactions from the Quincy court house. Needless to say all these Cashman and Mahoney's were from Ireland. I understand Cashman is a derivation of Kissane (Kissame?) and is/was unique to County Cork but I am glad to here of a certain area there for them. The Cashman family is certainly intertwined somehow with both my Danahey's and the Mahoney's. Thanks so much for the help and meeting new relatives.... Marynel