This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Flynn, Boyd, Duire/Dwyer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4dW.2ACEB/5.122.1 Message Board Post: Is Thomas Flynn who married Julia Boyd the son of Michael Flynn and Rose Winters? If so, he is the brother of my great-grandfather, Joseph Flynn. Joseph married Margaret Duire/Dwyer in 1885 in Wapello, Louisa County, Iowa. They ended up in Coleridge, Cedar County, Nebraska by the mid 1890s, when my grandfather, Patrick Joseph Flynn, was born in 1896. Joe and Margaret had at least eight children, but only three or four lived to adulthood--Patrick, Julia, Mary and possibly John or Jack (he supposedly died in 1918 of the flu). Joseph died February 29, 1904 of consumption, and three daughters died during March 1904 of measles. When my parents were first married, they send Christmas cards to a couple of Flynn ladies--my mom seems to think their names were Irene and Mae and they lived in either South Dakota or Minnesota. This would have been the early 1960s. My dad, Patrick's son, is an only child. Grandpa talked little about his family, and didn't know a whole lot. It would be nice to find some Flynn relatives! By the way, my dad and mom moved to the Milwaukee area in 1959 and we are still here! Joni (Flynn) Vella