Looking for where in County Clare these Gormans came from: John O. Gorman (born abt 1820) married Mary Quealy in Albany NY Michael Gorman (born about 1827 in County Clare) married Ann/Nancy Murphy Margaret Gorman (about 1830) married Patrick Quealy Margaret's sister, Mary Gorman (about 1825) Also hoping to find the names of the parents of these folks. (Gorman was used in the earlier U.S. records - some of the sons went by the surname O'Gorman.) These Gormans emigrated at the time of the Great Famine, and spent a few years in eastern U.S. states, NY, PA and NJ. These families arrived in MN Territory in about 1855 - the couples claimed farms in Eagan Twp., Dakota County, MN. Mary Gorman never married and was living on the Patrick Quealy and John O. Gorman farms in various censuses. The Quealys came from a farm just north of Lissycasey. A descendent of John O Gorman reported that the family came west as part of a "colony" of County Clare people. If so, the "colony" may have included Bartholamew Daly (abt 1832 in County Clare, claimed farm in Eagan Twp.) and Cornelius Cleary and his wife, Bridget Eagan, and their adult children from Clondagad parish, claimed farms in Credit River Twp., Scott County, MN. In 1870, the John O. Gorman and Bartholamew Daly families migrated to near Perham, Otter Tail County, MN. Another Gorman family that settled in Eagan Twp. in the cluster of Gorman family farms was Patrick Gorman and his wife, Nancy Mehan or Maher. Patrick's brief biography includes: "[he] was born in Ireland in 1831, and when eight years old his father died, and two years later Patrick came to America with his mother. They landed at Quebec and went from thence to Rouse's Point, New York, living in or near the place four years. Our subject resided in many different places in that State, including Binghamton, Great Bend. and New Milford, until 1835, when he removed to Scranton, Pennsylvania, and engaged in railroad work one year. In 1856, he came to this State, located in Eagan town, Dakota county, and for nine seasons was engaged in boating on the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers. He served in the late war from 1864, until June, 1865, in the Tenth Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, Company K. In 1870, he bought one hundred and sixty acres of land in [Wheatland township, Rice County, MN], moved his family here and immediately began making improvements." One source reports Patrick's parents as Patrick Gorman and Bridgette. Not sure if he was related to the other Gormans or if he came from County Clare. Yet another Gorman in the MN territorial census for Eagan Twp. was Margaret O'Gorman (about 1834 in Ireland), the wife of Patrick Quigley (born about 1823 in County Kilkenny). Shawne FitzGerald Minneapolis, MN, USA