This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Durkin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hBU.2ACEB/375.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Interesting how the names are similar. Michael (1780-1840) Sligo. Philip (1826-1889) born Sligo, immigrated Pawtucket RI around 1865. John (1851-1912) born Sligo, died Pawtucket. First immigrated to Burnsley Lancaster England with his brother Thomas. Married sisters, John married Winifred Herbert. Ran a grocery there. She died in childbirth in 1882. Thomas stayed in England. John remarried Bridget Gaffney and traveled with six children to Pawtucket. John Durkin had a son John Thomas Durkin (1876-1952) (my grandfather) who had a son John J. Durkin (my father). My grandfather had brothers Michael, Philip, and Roger (for whom I am named). We lost track of Thomas Durkin of Lancaster England. My interest is early Durkin Irish history. Where in Sligo, what did they do for a living, and was poverty and hunger as bad as family oral history??