I am stuck on my lineage guess it will stay that way, John HYLAND (Highland/Hiland/Highlund) born abt 1827-28 Ireland or No Ireland. Married abt 1850-1858 Ireland? Scotland? England? to a Mary or Maria Urquhart/Dwyer/Wallace/Shaw/ Ferguson. By 1860 they were in IL USA near Bloomington in McLean Co. They had a daughter Elizabeth born abt 1860 IL? England? Scotland? Ireland? I have never been able to find a Ships Passenger List or a copy of a marriage record or birth record for Elizabeth. The marriage record for Elizabeth does not give parents names nor does her death record. Nor that of her sister Mary Hyland who married my dads' great-grandfather Millard Filmore Coleman 1884 Yates Center Woodson Co KS. Also had other sisters Margaret married Abram Riley Lindamood, Elizabeth married Aaron H. Martin, Katherin married Alfred George Osborn Blenkarn/Blenkam. Neither of their death records indicate a mothers' name. Who was this elusive Mary or Maria? The reason I list the possible surname of Ferguson is because my fathers' middle name was Ferguson as was his fathers' middle name. My father was Thomas Ferguson Coleman Jr., his father was Thomas Ferguson Coleman Sr. Where that name came from I have no clue and absolutely no idea. Can anyone help me fathom this long standing mystery? Does anyone know this story? John Hyland died 1878 Woodson Co KS as a widower leaving 6 children who were "Farmed Out" his wife said having died circa or about 1872 possibly in child birth. They also had a son Thomas Patrick who I have both a marriage record and death record for he married Harriett "Hattie" Essarey. Also another son James who was living in another small community in Woodson Co and was an "apprentice carpenter" in 1880, I lost track of him at age 16 in this census document.