This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Furlong, Shelly Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/GZX.2ACEB/199.2 Message Board Post: I have a Alice Maude Shelly born to Patrick Shelly and Margaret Furlong on March 16, 1987 and was baptised at the Basilicia of St. John the Baptist. Alice was the fourth child of this marriage. Margaret Shelly b 1/27/1888, Mary Joseph b 4/25/1889, Eliza Frances b 11/17/1892 (my grandmother). The story is the same here for relatives in the Boston area. I also show that Patrick and Margaret married in 2/8/1888 and the witnesses were Philip Malone and Mary Furlong. The names of witnesses for their children's baptism are Edward Earls, Mary Margaret Furlong, John Furlong, Mary Barron, John Burke, Mary Maher, Michael Carroll, Julia Murphy Please let me know if there is any connection or you have any further information for me. thanks jeanne