MGallagher connection: My maternal grandmother's sister, Isabella Brennan, married a guy named Charles Aloysius "Charlie" Gallagher. Charlie was born about 1877 in Manhattan, the son of Cornelius Gallagher and Catherine Kelly. His parents disappeared at some point, and poor Charlie ended up living with his dad's sisters at different times ... Bridget Gallagher (married to Jeremiah Murphy) and Ellen Gallagher (married Michael Kedney). Charlie had 2 sisters and a brother: Mary, Helen (Nellie) and Cornelius. I have no idea what became of them. In 1918, Charlie married Isabella Brennan, my grandmother's sister. Family legend has it they had one child who died at or soon after birth. Charlie and Bella lived in the Irishtown section of Brooklyn, in the shadows of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Charlie died in 1931. One puzzler: a Michael Gallagher (have no idea who he was) appears as Godfather on my grandmother's Baptismal certificate ... Mary Ellen Brennan, born Jan. 22, 1879. Another possible connection, though perhaps not bloodwise ... Patrick and Maria Quinn served as godparents for Margaret Brennan, sister to my grandmother Mary Ellen and and grand-aunt Isabella Brennan, in 1881. Again, I have no idea who these folks are and how/if they are related. I suspect they were all living in the same area ... Gold Street or thereabouts in the Irishtown section of Brooklyn. The Baptisms took place at St. Anne's Church, corner of Gold and Front Streets ... the church is now closed, like so many of the old ones, sad to say. Lauren lmpetit@cox.net