Hello Lois, Sorry for the delay. I wrote a letter to you yesterday then Hotmail seemed to go berserk and I lost it. When I tried today the email was returned from Ask......... The list you saw was for all the McSheffrey references I could find. All I can suggest is either a Google search or go to the Donegal website listed below. This is a copy of a letter I got some months ago about people forced to move from one parish to another. People also moved to find work; my ancestors probably lived in the Strabane area but then moved to the Castlederg area. If you go to a Londonderry site that has maps and compare it with the maps at freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~tyrone/ you can guess the distance. >From Robert in NI and Ray in Australia: I hope this helps rather than confuses but I noticed you are discussing Moorheads in Donegal and Tyrone. I know the genealogy of Donaghmore, Donegal quite well but the Moorhead name is not readily found there. I think the connection between these families and places may be the Duke of Abercorn and the Barnscourt Estate. Abercorn held land in Donaghmore, Donegal and in North Tyrone. Circa 1800 families were moved out of Ardstraw and into Donagheady in order to give the newly appointed Church of Ireland clergyman a better living. (He was 84 at the time and newly married) Among the families relocated from Ardstraw into Donagheady at that time were Moorheads. Regards Robert Williams www.ulsterancestry.com <[email protected]> Hello Priscilla. YES. I also have found it very confusing, because Donaghmore parish in County Donegal, is right on the border with County Tyrone. HOWEVER, the Donaghmore parish in County Tyrone is on the opposite side of Tyrone. My MOORHEAD relations, like your family, appear to have moved and married across these counties, willy-nilly. Someone wrote recently to (this?) list, how the county borders had very little meaning in the everyday lives of most locals, until the partitioning between the North and the South occurred in the 1920s. Even when I visited Ireland about 20 years ago, I just walked along a roadway, across a bridge, past a guard check-point -- between Tyrone and Donegal --- completely unmolested, with no one coming out to check my passport, etc. That was quite a surprise to me. When I mentioned it to some locals, they said that even today people live on one side of the border and work on the other, and so commute across daily -- seemingly without formalities. So my guess would be to trust your original reference to Donaghmore in County Donegal. In case you are not aware of it, there is an excellent County Donegal list -- just like this one. Its subscribe address is: [email protected] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegal The list-master also hosts: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~donegaleire/ Trusting that this might help you. <[email protected]> I hope it helps. Get back to me if there's any more I can do, Rob _________________________________________________________________ Tired of 56k? Get a FREE BT Broadband connection http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/btbroadband