HMWEBBER????, No real data on your names but the version" McEntagggart is not listed in Griffiths Valuation for Donegal. There are a number of McTaggarts listed mainly in the Parish of Kilmcrenan. This will at least show you the area they lived in. See: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hiflyte/iredata/Griff_Val/gv_lm/gv_m51.htm The Famine in Donegal of 1845 - 1850 may have been a contributing factor to him leaving. Other than the above that is all I have. Bob Cdn ====================================== [email protected] wrote:<SNIP> ...Any locations in Co. Donegal where this surname might be from. Thomas, entered the USA, at the Port of New York from Liverpool on Mar 1846 -- so says his Naturalization Record! I have not been able to find him .... ========================================