Hello I just joined the list and am happy to find so much information regarding the Irish in NYC. The family I am researching is: James John MURPHY married to Mary Ellen MOORE (datess unknown) ----together they had ,among other children, Mary Francis MURPHY and Margaret Rose MURPHY---There may have also been a child named Sarah. Info from a divorce record states there was another sister and a brother. This family was in NYC in the 1860s on . Mary and Margaret were born there Mary circa 1863 and Margaret circa 1870. Mary and Margaret both had connections to William Striven HEAL who was a taxidermist in NYC but who came from an English-Scottish family from Bowmanville, Ontario Canada. Mary Francis MURPHY married William Striven Heal in 1884 in NYC and they had one son Elbert Montgomery HEAL in 1887. Later when Elbert was about three , Margaret (Mary's younger sister) ran off with Marys husband. Mary was divorced from Mr. Heal in 1891. A possibility exists that if William S. HEAL and Margaret had any children from their alliance I wuld be related to them on both sides. Would be so interesting to find out about this part of my family. My father was Elbert Montgomery HEAL. AM going to NYC in October to do research on this family and would love any helpful suggestions on where to go and what to look through. Thank you for your help Ginger Montague