Thanks Andrew on your past work and good luck to you Chris for taking over this site. My great grandfather was James TWOHIG who from a baptism certificate from the RC Parishes of Ardfield and Rathbarry was baptised on 24 June 1832. The parents are listed as Denis TWOHIG and Ellen FIELD. Witnesses were James Bryan and Biddy Fihelly. I do not know if Biddy Fihelly was a relative or not as Fihelly was one of the many variants of the Field name. The Field name comes up later in association with the TWOHIG name in the Boston area.. I am sure there were siblings but I do not know all of them, especially of the ones that stayed in Ireland. These two RC parishes were not combined in 1832 so I do not know which of these parishes was the native parish of the bride- Ellen Field. The Twohig name is located in many areas of Cork but also has the spelling variants of TOOHIG and TUOHIG. This last variant was popular in the 18th century- 1700's. I do not know the Denis or James Twohig home township. But I do know that they were farmers and were happy with their landlord but somewhere in Cork.. James immigrated to the US and arrived in Boston on July 4, 1852 along with a John FIELD who with James also filed immigration papers together and said they both came from Cork and arrived in Boston together on the same date!!!. I would assume that John was a cousin since his name was the same as his mother's maiden name. However, I have not been able to find any immigration records into Boston or NY for either person. I am thinking that they may have come thru Nova Scotia which was probably cheaper. But no luck there also. James married Bridget CASEY at St Rose Catholic church in Chelsea, Massachusets on November 20, 1853. This Bridget Casey was from county Sligo and is not related to the CASEY'S from Cork that I am interested in. The Cork CASEY's are on my wife side of the family. The Cork Casey information is very sparse except for the names. No location is mentioned. There is a James Casey who married a Margaret Brady somewhere in Cork and immigrated to the US around 1855. James died in 1866 and Margaret died in 1886. No other information is available from Ireland. I would be glad to correspond to any person that may have a connection or wishes to explore connections. Thanks for you help. Bob Trehearne -> > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CORK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message