This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/3h.2ADE/374.370 Message Board Post: I am researching a Dowd family who came from Ireland around 1850. They are in Madison Indiana by 1853 when their daughter Bridget was born. I don't have the father's name. The mother was Mary Toole and there was an older son John who was born in Ireland. The father was killed while working on the Railroad.