Dear Friends, I'm trying to find information on Fr. William HOWARD, a Catholic Priest working out of Utica in the 1840's/1850's who attended Roman Catholics in several small towns who didn't have an established church yet. I'm particularly interested in my Irish relatives, Michael FLYNN and wife, Mary HOLLORAN from Ireland who married about 1850 in Hudson, Columbia Cty., NY. St. Mary's Church in Hudson, records don't start until 1855 and I learned of the baptism of their third child and my ggrandmother's maiden name thru those records but earlier sacramental records of Fr. HOWARD are not to be found, as I've been told by the Albany Archdiocese. I've been trying to talk to an archivist in the Syracuse Diocese (which Utica belongs to) but his hours are sporadic and I haven't been able to get him. Would anyone know anything of this Priest or a book about him? If he was of a particular order perhaps the records are in the order's home archives. I would greatly appreciate any info you can provide on this topic. Thank you. Mary L. Casey in Michigan