Re-posting my family search information. Parents Michael and Bridget (nee uk) Nicholson Born c.1815-20 Location unknown. Children include Patrick, John, Michael, Mary,?James (my gggrandfather) born 1839, Owen?other siblings mentioned older. Children all born in Ireland location unknown.?Children listed in 1850 US Census living in Roxbury (Boston). Census records arrival in US in 1848. Parents may have died at sea. Gggrandfather James?married in St Francis de Sales Roman Catholic church in Roxbury 1864 but don't know for sure if the family were Roman Catholic. Ggrandfather's sons were not in adulthood.?Marriage information obtained from church records through Archdiocese of Boston archives before it was shut down for a year. Griffith Valuation records both a Bridget and a Michael Nicholson in Donegal but that was 1957 nine years after arrival in Boston. Gggrandafter James served in the Federal navy in war. I have his pension records but no references to Ireland birth place. S! ame with marriage and death certificates. David Springfield, MA