I too have an interest in Fenians. The brothers John, Thomas and Patrick McCarthy were raised between 1849 and 1866, in Oldham England, which is a suburb of Manchester, and then emigrated to New York and/or NH in the late 1860s. They had been born in Ballindine, County Mayo. In the obituary for Thomas who was killed in a RR crossing accident in 1907 when he was 70 yrs of age, mention was made of his connection with the Fenians, and I quote: "[Thomas McCarthy] was employed in Oldham when the Fenian uprising occurred in Ireland [in 1866-67]. Being a member of the Irish Revolutionary Society, better known as the Fenian Brotherhood, Mr. McCarthy left Oldham and went to Dublin, Ireland, to take charge of a company of 200 men. During this uprising he became a close personal friend of O'Donovan Rosa, who he has since entertained in his home in this city [Nashua, NH.]" Thomas and Margaret Bates McCarthy's daughter, Mary Theresa, was born in Dublin during this period. By 1868, the family appeared in City Directory for Nashua NH. In America, Thomas was very active in the John Boyle O'Reilly literary society and also was a member of the AOH. Thomas McCarthy's brother John is my great grandfather. John and his bride, Ellen Mullin, emigrated to NY in 1863-64. Although John does not appear to have been a Fenian, he had Democratic leanings and perhaps a revolutionary spirit. His only son, my maternal grandfather, born in 1870 in Brooklyn, NY, was named Patrick Henry McCarthy. Family lore had it that the McCarthy Brothers were somehow involved in "police work." I suspect they were not policeman, as my mother surmised, but were the quarry. Any one heard of these names in connection with the Fenian uprising in Ireland? I only know of one newspaper account in Cork which mentions a Thomas McCarthy who was arrested for carrying a pistol. Sheila MacAvoy Block