"GKM" <gkmcauliffe@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:m5rJf.184713$oG.110544@dukeread02... > > "seaghda" <vamshay@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message > news:1136227313.287949.308940@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com... >> My grandfather Michael White (1861-1939) of Ballyagran, County >> Limerick, Chicago and >> San Francisco left Ireland in 1884 for Chicago just prior to his last >> year in the seminary. >> The family cannot find a record at Maynooth so I am thinking he was >> studying with the >> Christian Brothers in nearby Charleville. He was knowledgable in Latin >> and Greek so >> I am thinking he left a major seminary the year before ordination. >> Would 24 be the >> normal age of ordination during the 19th century? > [snip] The GV has only one reference for the surname WHITE in Ballyagran: WHITE, Catherine County: Limerick Parish: Corcomohide Location: Ballyagran (Village of) Mike.