A poster queried web address below, here is a correct link http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/ JM "JJM" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > Francis, > While posters on this group have often warned against basing research on > statistics or probability, as a starting point if you check with > irishtimes.com/ancestors you will see that McPhillips was most frequent in > Co. Monaghan and McGowan in Co. Leitrim. As these counties are close > together and adjoin Fermanagh, it seems like these 3 counties would be a > good place to start searching birth/baptism records. > JM > > "FRANCIS SOUTHWICK" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected] >>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. >> >> Can anyone get me any information on these families. >> >> Thank you. >> > >