georgia de salvo <redheadedwitch6969@yahoo.com> wrote..................... >My Mother believes that we may be of Irish descent because of the >similarities >of her surname and the County of Trim? Can anyone with any local access (In >County Trim), tell me if any TRIMMER'S ever lived there? Thank you, Georgia, >Too close too New Orleans. Probably British............. But try a Google.com search of the name. TRIMMER was one of the "Adventurers for land" in Ireland. "Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland" " According to the scheme of the Parliament for suppressing' the Irish Rebellion (of 1641), 2.500,000 acres of Irish lands, to be forfeited, were offered as security to those who should advance moneys toward raising and paying a private army for subduing the rebels In Ireland. "