This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Durkin Findley Stephens/Stevens Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hBU.2ACEB/375.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: I wonder whether your Sligo Durkin family might include a Mary Durkin who married a John Findley. somewhere in Co. Sligo? Mary would probably have been born within a few years of 1800. Her daughter, Mary Findley,was my great-grandmother, and came to the USA in the 1870's, as a woman in her mid fifties. The entire family immigrated, sending money back so that the the next could come, parents last.. They wound up living in Pawtucket, and surrounding areas, in Cranston, and especially the mill villages along the Blackstone River. This family, too, lived in England for a number of years after leaving Ireland. I know that these Irish families tended to settle where there were family or friends already living, and I wonder if there could be a connection to your Pawtucket family. Sorry I don't have anything concrete about my family while they lived in Ireland. The family tales all indicate very rough times! Evelyn Ulmer 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??