"FRANCIS SOUTHWICK" <[email protected]> wrote in >I am looking to locate my family. > > My gg grandfather was called Charles McPhillips born c 1838. I do not > know which county he was born in. His father was also called Charles. > > Also my gg grandmother Rose Ann McGowan born c 1840. Again I do not know > the county she was born in. Her father was called John. > > Charles and Rose Ann were married in Northumberland in England in 1866. As others have mentioned, almost impossible to find help with just that info. Other possibilities to check out could be: Did they include any place names in the names of their children? Did they live in a place at any time that they named in memory of their birthplace eg a house called "Donegal" or somesuch. Did thei tombstones give a birthplace (I was lucky enough to find the Townland name on the headstone of my gggrandfather. I'd known his county of birth but not his Townland). Any old bibles/books tucked in a bookcase that might have belonged to them (or even in the extended family) that gives a place in Ireland?