This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Furlong Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GZX.2ACEB/218 Message Board Post: A little history lesson The first Furlong's arrived,with the English in 1169 when Norman,Flemish and Welsh mercenaries first came to Ireland at the behest of Dermot Mac-Murrough, the name Furlong has been prominent in Co.Wexford,and despite political aand religious upheaval,confiscations and transplantings the bulk of those bearing the Furlong name still reside in Wexford. A study of this family states that the Furlongd are belived establidhed in Devonshire before the Norman Conquest of England. I 'm looking for my great father Michael Furlong who emigrated to U.S.A. around 1887--- we thing he remarried and had a family, in California. when he past away, of him or his family we never heard, can you help michael furlong was a wexford man who went to U.S.A. around 1887's my father was told that he may have been killed while working on the Sacramento bridge.