This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: fitzgerald maher in Limerick Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1cW.2ACIB/1197.1.1.1 Message Board Post: In my heart I would guess there is a connection but with all these Fitzgeralds - Thomas Johns and Ellens -- 1st cousin or 6 th cousin is the question. The same problem with number of Williams --25 at one time in Troy, NY I believe -- is also in the US. frank healy