Dear Listers, I really need your help............ I am seeking any information on my Great Grandfather. He was born in 1833-38 in Donegal. Came to Henderson, Kentucky around 1853. He was peddling Irish linens in the South for a time, went to New York Married (1) Isabella McLaughlin, had a son James and a daughter Isabella (Bell). The 1900 Census shows his sister Margaret living with him. At some point prior to 1853, while he was traveling with several men in his employee, he sold everything to those men after being robbed, and came to KY and bought 2000 Acres of land for "$1,500 down in gold". He then went back to NY for a short time and then back to KY to settle. He opened a tobacco warehouse and a mercantile. He sold goods and cured tobacco for many years. He died in Henderson in 1909 and is buried in the Nunn Cemetery. He was married twice more after Isabella. (2) Charlotte Hinton Nunn (My Great Grandmother) and (3) Lucy J. Moss. Both of Henderson KY and both buried in the Nunn Cemetery. I have a good deal of information on him after his arrival here, but nothing on his family or parents. We are going to Ireland to do some research in September and I am desperately trying to find out his parents name and what town in Donegal he came from. Since he had a bit of money when he arrived in this country, I doubt that he came over on a famine ship, but that is only an opinion. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Kathleen Porter McIntosh