Hello, Listers! I have been researching for over 30 years and have yet to find my husband's great great grandfather and gg grandmother listed anywhere in the US. Timothy Henley, born about 1830 in Ireland, and Mary Kane, born about 1829, baptized in Booterstown, near Dublin. I have found the records in Ireland where they were married and have found them getting off the ship Continent at Castle Garden in NYC on May 1, 1852. Their son was born some place in NYC in 1856. Family oral history says Timothy went off to the gold fields at some time when his son was very young, and Mary and their son lived in New London, where her brother William Kane helped to raise the son (whose name is also Timothy). However, I have not been able to find them in New London in the census or the city directories available through Ancestry do not show them either. I found one family on the 1860 census with a Timothy and Mary with a daughter Joanna and son Timothy, whom I originally thought was them (Cambridge, Middlesex Co., MA), but I am not certain that is them. Timothy and Mary had a daughter who died at a young age, name unknown. They had no other children known to the family. I have not found Mary living with her son Timothy in New York or Connecticut in 1860-1880. In 1881 her son was married in Norwich to Annie Thompson. Family history states that Mary went to live in Nyack, Rockland County, New York, in the mid 1890s, to be near other Kane family members. Does anyone have any ideas on new ways to approach this? (I live in Maryland and do not have easy access to records in CT.) Charlotte