Thank, these are exactly the sort of questions I have Regards Margaret -----Original Message----- From: Mary Ellen Chambers Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 9:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IRL-CLARE] Irish Catholic church pre-1800 Margaret~ My family asks the same question, how did our family whose descendants still reside in Mayo and Wexford maintain their faith, keep the property they leased. buying it in the 1870s. The Famine itself in Mayo. I have a book, published by the Castlebar County Library about 5 yrs. ago which is newspaper articles of the Famine time. In many of them, mentioning the names of families who died, the landlords who put people out with the names of the families.