Robin -- rmarkle@rochester.rr.com -- said: I just found some good information in an obituary clipping about my Great Aunt Margaret Cannon..."She was a member of the Catholich Church in Castine, ME and the Bryn Mawr Catholic Church in Philadelphia, PA." Robin-- Bryn Mawr is a suburb of Philadelphia; it's about half an hour outside the city on what is known as "the Main Line." The Main Line is where all the wealthy city people had their summer houses back in the days when the rich people left the cities during the heat of the summer (and, later, wealthy people made it their year-round home). (If you've seen THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart) or its remake, HIGH SOCIETY (Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra, and Bing Crosby), you've seen Hollywood's version of the Main Line). Most of the houses in Bryn Mawr are either houses of the wealthy or houses of the employees of the wealthy. The Catholic Church in Bryn Mawr is Our Mother of Good Counsel, founded 1885, and it's in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. See http://www.archdiocese-phl.org/parishes/7410.htm for the official parish listing (including contact info) on the Archdiocese's website. Here's a page that will give you statistical info on Bryn Ma! wr -- http://www.city-data.com/city/Bryn-Mawr-Pennsylvania.html Castine, ME (= Maine) is a town just off Penobscot Bay; the Catholic Church there looks like Our Lady of Holy Hope on Perkins Street; the rectory is 39 Pleasant, Castine, ME 04421, Phone: (207) 326-8740. Here's the official town website -- http://www.castine.me.us/index.phtml -- which will give you a lot of history, local color, etc. Maine was another popular summer home/vacation spot for wealthy Philadelphians. Note, though, that knowing the PA and ME churches may not help you. Catholic churches generally do not keep records of deaths; she died unmarried, so the marriage records won't help; and she was presumably baptized in Ireland. If she died while in Bryn Mawr, I would suggest you try Holy Cross Cemetery (a major diocesan cemetery) as the most likely burial location (assuming, of course, that the obit you found doesn't give you more definite info on her burial). From this limited info (that she was single, Irish Catholic, and had ties to Maine and Bryn Mawr), I would guess that your greataunt was a servant in a wealthy household. If she had emigrated and was a servant as early as 1930 (when she would have been c. 40), you may find her in the 1930 US census, enumerated with the family. In earlier censuses, if you can't find her by name, be sure to check for her employers -- I've had several family members who were single, female servants who were not indexed in earlier censuses and were findable only by finding the family they worked for. Also, keep a lookout for other servants in the household -- they could be more relatives or at least friends from back home. My cousin grew up in Bryn Mawr in a neighborhood where many of the servants lived (his parents were Irish emigrants/servants) and says he heard more Irish accents when he was growing up than he did American accents. I hope this helps. Claire K.