David You probably have done this - looked at the surname variant Meskill for Mescall- I am aware of some families using Meskill today. Clare ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Collins" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 6:06 PM Subject: Emigrant to Australia >I have contacted all the state and national archives in Australia in > hopes of finding a clue about an ancestor who supposedly emigrated > from Cork to Australia in the 1890s. But the Australian archives > haven't found any record of him. > > I'm fairly certain that he didn't emigrate to the USA - at least he > doesn't show up in census or passenger list records. > > I would appreciate any suggestions about continuing the Australian > search. > > The only information I have is: > Name - Bartholomew Mescall > DoB - March 1871 > PoB - Kilpatrick, Kilpatrick, Co. Cork > Parents - Denis Mescall & Mary Murphy > > Dave Collins > Hudson, Mass., USA > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. We are a community of 6 million users fighting spam. SPAMfighter has removed 316 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len The Professional version does not have this message