This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FLYNN Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4dW.2ACEB/100.132.211.212.214.216.2.1.1 Message Board Post: I found a Maurice Flynn (no direct connection) in Boston MA census in 1860? (can't remember). In Abbeyfeale, I have found 2 Maurice Flynn's and 2 William Flynn's (or at least each name with a different wife) as parents in birth records in the IGI. I suspect that there may have been an extended family in the Abbeyfeale area. "My" Maurice actually lived in Washington DC in the 1850's (at least 2 children born there), reportedly working on the Washington Monument. He then removed his family back to Ireland at the start of the Civil War, where the remaining children were born. I don't believe he ever returned to the US, although some of his children did in the 1880's. It sounds like "your" Flynns are half a generation or so older than mine; I'm guessing that "my" Maurice was born around 1830 - 1835.