Tom & Gaylene wrote: > My great great grandparents came to the US in about 1853. They settled in > Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania. I am at dead ends as far as > ships and/or places of origin other than Ireland. > > Can anyone please help me? > > Tom Toland > ttoland@alltel.net > > Well, one little clue is that name Nancy. Some clever researcher has plotted a distribution of it in that time period: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dgarvey/Bartley/nancy.html If you know someone with a full copy of the index to Griffith's valuation, the next thing to check is the distribution of the surname Carr. Good luck in your research. Jim

"James A. Honeychuck" <jimhoney@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:O66Ke.81864$5N3.32289@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... > Tom & Gaylene wrote: >> My great great grandparents came to the US in about 1853. They settled >> in >> Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania. I am at dead ends as far as Tom, I have been unable thusfar to find your great grandparents in the ship's lists on ancestry.com. I cannot locate them in the 1860 census in PA either. I have found the family 1870-1910 in the censuses. For your information, the only census in which your great grandmother is referred to as Nancy is 1900. In all of the other censuses she is listed as Agnes. I have searched for her under both names on the ship's lists to no avail. The date of immigration is also questionable. It is listed as 1853 in the 1900 census, but in 1910 it appears as 1852. But her two eldest sons were born in Ireland and in one of the censuses one of the sons is listed as born 1854. One of my great grandmothers was listed in the same manner, i.e., Nancy/Agnes. I also found one reference to her as Jane. My great grandmother nee Moor was born in Scotland but immigrated from Ireland. Mike

Surname distribution can be checked at: http://scripts.ireland.com/ancestor/surname/index.cfm "James A. Honeychuck" <jimhoney@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:O66Ke.81864$5N3.32289@bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net... > Tom & Gaylene wrote: > > My great great grandparents came to the US in about 1853. They settled in > > Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania. I am at dead ends as far as > > ships and/or places of origin other than Ireland. > > > > Can anyone please help me? > > > > Tom Toland > > ttoland@alltel.net > > > > > > > Well, one little clue is that name Nancy. Some clever researcher has > plotted a distribution of it in that time period: > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dgarvey/Bartley/nancy.html > > If you know someone with a full copy of the index to Griffith's > valuation, the next thing to check is the distribution of the surname Carr. > > Good luck in your research. > > Jim