In a message dated 10/19/2005 4:03:43 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, jjmalone@eircom.net writes: I have found in the National Archives a record of a will of a Thomas Garry who died in 1837 in Kildare. He was a tenant farmer who left some cattle and household goods to his eldest son and heir and "31 pounds in small legacies and to the maintenance and clothing of the son James". Now in the 20th or 21st century the term "maintenance" would imply a divorce situation, but this was hardly the case in 1837 for an Irish Catholic. It seems, based on the fact that baptisimal register starts in 1818 and that there is no record of James, that James was born pre 1818 and was therefore over 19 when his father died. Any ideas as to why a father would provide for the clothing of a 19 year old son, and leave nothing to his other children?? Would there be any other documents/records that could be searched? Perhaps the young man was physically or mentally impaired.