Passing this wonderful URL along from another list -- Subject: Surname search, UK & Ireland http://genealogysearch.org/search/ukireland.html You owe it to yourself to check out the above URL. I found, among much other interesting information, the recollections of a Mrs. Kavanagh, 29 Boundary Place London Rd., Liverpool, who was born 31 Oct 1805 in a village five miles from Athy in Co. Kildare. Her story was published in the "Liverpool Echo" 1908. She tells of the terrible plague of Asiatic cholera that visited Liverpool in 1849 and raged around her. There is a second published recollection from the same year from a Liverpudlian about the docks and shipping. There is also good information about Liverpool churches, much more on many other UK and Ireland locations. . Mrs. Kavanagh's recollections: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~liverpool/centenarian.html