My grandparents, John Joseph MEHIGAN and Elizabeth BUSHE were both from Castletownroche, County Cork, Ireland. They married in 1894 after emigrating to Cambridge, Massachusetts around 1886.Their name morphed to Meehan sometime between the 1900 and 1910 US censuses. I have definitively traced their ancestry back to the early 1800's as follows; Robert Mehigan, wife Julia KEEFE Their son Daniel Mehigan (born 1807) who married Judith MURPHY (born 1811) in 1837 Judith's parents Garrett Murphy and Catherine GRIFFEN Their son Garrett Mehigan (born 1837) married Johanna DUANE (born 1839) in 1864. Johanna's parents were Thomas Duane and Johanna DOHERTY, married 1838 Their son, John Joseph Mehigan, born 1867. Cornelius BUSHE, wife unknown, from the Annakissa/Kilavullen area His son Jeremiah, who married Mary BRIEN in 1820 and was killed as a Whiteboy invading a landlord's house in 1823 Cornelius' son, Maurice, of Joyfield, who married Elizabeth (Alicia) ROGERS in 1824. Their son, Denis (born 1826) who married Catherine JOYCE (from Minane Bridge/Kinsale area) (born 1826), in 1846, Catherine's parents were Thomas Joyce and Catherine SCULLY, married 1823. Their daughter, Mary, (born 1846), married Edward DENNEHY in 1867 and is the great=grandmother of a recently-found cousin, Dorothea Sanderson. Edward's father was John Dennehy. Denis daughter Elizabeth, my grandmother, born 1865. Robert Mehigan is probably the son of John Joseph de Mehegan. In 1690 Christopher the O'Meighan, an officer in the army of James II, was killed at the Battle of the Boyne. His wife, Marguerita O'Reilly and their three youngest children left their home in the Manorhamilton,Ballaghmeehan area of County Leitrim for a farm called Kilcoran in the Clonmel area of County Tipperary, about 20 miles from Castletownroche. Christophers two oldest sons went to France and served in French armies. One of them, Jacques, married Elizabeth RUSSELL. Their son, Guillaume Alexander, a writer and political activist who spent some time in the Bastille, married Charlotte Therese BOITEL. They had a son, Jean Joseph. After Guillaume's death in 1766 Charlotte and the infant Jean Joseph joined the rest of the family in Kilcoran. (This was the same year that Christopher's grandson, Ned Meehan, was executed there along with Fr. Nicholas Sheehy for a murder they did not commit.) Although definitive records are not available for 1766-early 1800, I have enough circumstantial evidence to state that Jean Joseph was probably Robert's father. In my searching I have also found that St. Molaise, a Meehan, 6th century Irish saint whose cumdach or gospel book cover was guarded by Meehans through the centuries until it was donated to the National Museum in the late 1800's, was the one who banished St. Columcille from Ireland for a battle resulting from St. Columcille's copying of someone else's psalm book. The descendants of St Columcille and his followers were the founders of the Scottish clan Malcolm/McCallum. My mother was a McCallum. It's been a great hunt and I have learned so much from the members of this list and others. More importantly I have met several new cousins both in the US and Ireland. Bob Meehan Dunwoody, Georgia