SNIPPET: In 1996, the WESTGATE researcher (details below) was also seeking this information: Descendants of Edmondson O'LEARY, soldier, wife unknown; one daughter Kathleen Frances, born 1901, Dublin, moved to Canada, died 1935. Other children unknown. Cathy WESTGATE, Doaktown, New Brunswick, great-granddaughter. This additional surname should help to better identify this WESTGATE line. NOTE: An unusual given name of a son in better-educated and well-to-do families quite quite often revealed his mother's maiden ("nee") surname or another surname important to that family. (Perhaps, this is the case with Edmondson O'LEARY). At other times, children's name represented saints or admired "heros." A child with a first, middle and last name was most often found in families of means. I recall reading that in the 1800s (19th century) in Ireland, there were only 100 or so given names, which makes Irish genealogy particularly difficult. Names were passed down from generation to generation. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jean R." <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 1:30 PM Subject: [IGW] Matchmaking: Mayo>Canada WESTGATE/TRIMBLE/Cavan BUCHANAN > SNIPPET: Have had great success making matches from inquiries in old > genealogy magazines. More often than not, the inquiries came from > researchers who were not posting to the Internet. Cathy WESTGATE of > Doaktown, NB, Canada was attempting to find connections to her family in a > classified ad section of the 1996 #2 Issue of Cork's "Irish Roots" > magazine: > Thomas WESTGATE, b. 1800 and Mary TRIMBLE married Holy Trinity, Westport, > Co. Mayo 1822, children George, Elizabeth, Maria, Jane, Jarvis (b. 1834 > Castlebar). Moved to Canada 1836. BUCHANAN: Mary b. 1836 Co. Cavan of > Mary (LOVE?) and William became wife of Jarvis WESTGATE. Hope this > provides > just the right clue for a WESTGATE researcher.