This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/IQh.2ACIB/83.2 Message Board Post: Hello Jim I am also trying to do some research on the name halligan. my grand father william Smith came to austrilia before 1900 and his mother was a Alicia Halligan and father was Charles smith from country meath. many thanks margaret