I don't know if this will help you at all, but here it is. It is the only Bow reference I have, mixed in with my Cummins. from "Search for Missing Friends: Irish Immigrant Advertisements Placed in The Boston Pilot 1831 - 1920," edited by Ruth-Ann Harris and B. Emer O'Keefe: 3 April 1875. Of DAN CUMMINGS, and his sister ANN BOW (maiden name Cummings); when last heard from Dan was in Tennessee in 1861, and Ann was in Raleigh, Mo., in ’63; their father, Jas. Cummings, and their mother, Margaret (maiden name Lynup), were natives of county Carlow. Information of them will be received by their sister, Elizabeth Kiely. Address Patrick Kiely, State Line City, Warren county, Indiana. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deborah Fox" <deborahlargefox@gmail.com> To: irl-carlow@rootsweb.com Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 9:42:32 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [IRL-CARLOW] LARGE and BOWE and KAVANAGH I have been looking for three families that I believe might have originated in Co. Carlow: BOWE, LARGE, and KAVANAGH. Thomas Large married Bridget Kavanagh by 1826 or so, and they appear in Co. Kilkenny by then. I think this Thomas may have been married before to a woman in Carlow. One of the Large children later married a BOWE in Pennsylvania. I have been looking at Ballyknocken records since they contain both Bowe and Large families, but I am not limiting my search to that area. Would be interested in any information on any of these names in Carlow. Thanks! Deb DEBORAH LARGE FOX