Hello, My husband's great-grandparents were a GAVIN / WHELAN couple from County Galway, Ireland. They came to Massachusetts in the 1860's. I'd like to offer an FYI that earlier this month I Adopted the GAVIN List. There are only 28 subscribers, and I'd like to invite others to join us. It is fine with me to include other spellings of the name, like GAVAN. This is the information page: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/g/gavin.html Thank you for your time. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) We may have arrived on different ships but we're all in the same boat now. :o) (thinking genealogy) (possibly first said by Martin Luther King, Jr.)