McKENZIE ~ O'NEIL ~ SULLIVAN ~ SHEEHAN ~ MADDEN ~ DONOVAN DALEY ~ McINTIRE ~ McKENNA ~ McCARTHY ~ McLEOD ~ KENNY ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Greetings Folks and a happy Mother's Day, Essential info all on 1st portion of page 1. Does anyone have access to the 1872 Belfast Directory ? If so, would you be so kind as to do a lookup for Daniel, Mgt., John or Elizabeth McKenzie. TIA. Good luck and all the best with your family search . . . kind regards, Walt McKenzie-NJ-USA [email protected] *************************************************************** " Due to immigration, after the 1840's Ireland famine, over 33% of Boston's population were from Ireland & Scotland. By 1870 2.5 million, 1900 over 40% and 5 million today are of Irish ancestors." Ireland 7 million Irish Descent : America 50 million ~ Britain 8 million ~ Australia 3 million Canada ? million Grandpa Walt McKENZIE, Sr. NJ Shore, USA (b. Boston/Somerville*, MA) 1972-Present 1938-1971 *Middlesex Co.(Som.) has the most of Irish descent with 400,000. Search priorities : Ire ~ Eng ~ Scot ~ USA 1681-1895 1873-1907 To 1680 1872-1945 " The marvelous Central NJ Shore area, like Boston, has wonderful Ireland & Scotland roots. The first St. Patrick's holiday was declared 3 / 17 / 1780 by General Washington in Morristown, NJ. Kerny, NJ has a large well-known Scottish community. In 2000, Spring Lake, NJ population was 53% of Irish descent followed by Avon & Sea Girt. Then there is the large annual Belmar, NJ St. Patty's Day parade. Today overall, NJ has 1.4 million or 18% of the population claiming to be of Irish descent." **************************************************************** -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.6 - Release Date: 5/6/2005