This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Donovan Classification: Queries Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wJT.2ACEB/658.2 Message Board Post: Look for Jim Donovan's message on the board - it makes interesting reading. I am a decendant of Patrick Donovan, who although says in the British 1881 cencus that he was born about 1820 in Poplar, east London, I've found no evidence that that is actually his place of birth. Family legend says that this branch of the family were from Cork, and I strongly believe that he was the youngest of the brothers you talk about.- Jim Donovan mentions in his latest message that Timothy's wife Joanna arrived in Boston to be with him in April 1848 with a youth by the name of Patick Donovan. If this is my Patrick, he would have been 28, and I'm not sure this would have qualified him as a youth. However, he never had his 1st son, Danial, till 1855, so time enough to get to London, where he proves to be a married man with 5 sons and 2 daughters in the 1881 cencus. Anyway, if you havent seen it already, I urge you to look for Jim Donovan's message.