Lynn -- Your information is SO CLOSE I gasped when I saw it. >my Great Grandmother was: CATHERINE FLEMING she married MICHAEL MURRAY. > >We were told through family stories that both the Flemings and the Murrays >were from County cork and they settled in NEW ORLEANS, LA. > >Catherine was born circa 1840 and married in New Orleans circa 1860 ish. > >I have their children and grandchildren if anyone matches up to CATHERINE >FLEMING........ > >Hope to find some cousins in this group this year! > >Till later, Lynn > Do you know where in County Cork they came from? My Fleming ancestors came from Mitchellstown, County Cork. The farthest back I can go is John Fleming, possibly John Joseph Fleming, born ca. 1780-1790 (guestimate). He married Margaret (last name unknown to me) around 1810-1815 (guestimate). They had at least children: Mary, Ellen, Elizabeth, John, Bridget and Michael. Michael was the last one, born in 1823. He came to Canada in 1840, then to Boston in 1842, and was in Louisiana in 1843. He married Bridget Maher (b. 1824 near Kilkenny, Ireland) in 1850 in New Orleans, and they had 9 children, most born in either New Orleans or Donaldsonville: Edmund, Margaret, John Joseph (1851), Daniel (1853), Mary (1855), Elizabeth (1856), Johanna (1859), Agnes (1863), and William P (1867). They moved to Burlington, Iowa, around 1858. I do know that many of the Flemings in this family emigrated from Ireland in the 1830s and 1840s. I do not know what happened to most of them. I mainly have information on those in my line -- Michael Fleming's line. Margaret Fleming married a William McDonald and lived in Concordia KS. They had several children. I do know that Daniel Fleming was born about 1853 and died in 1899 or 1900, in New Orleans. Elizabeth died in1904 in Chicago -- she had been a Mother Superior in the Roman Catholic order of the Sisters of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Many of the women in this branch of the Fleming family became "BVM's" as they are known. Some of them did not have accurate birthdates, as three were given January 1 of different years by the BVM orders. Edmund K. Fleming married Elizabeth Garrity -- I do not know when or where -- and they had two children -- Edmund K, Jr., and Kathleen. I do not have birth or death dates or places for either of them. Kathleen and Catherine are very similar names. Does this ring a bell with you or anyone else? I certainly hope so. I do have more information, and will be happy to share what I have with anyone. Hoping to meet some "new" relatives, -- Phil Philip B. "Phil" Fleming Canton, Illinois, USA [email protected]