Thanks, Kevin. I was afraid of that. Guess I'll go back to dreaming that someday I'll walk around the corner and someone will wop me in the head with the Sullivan family bible...complete with a full genealogy of my family back to Milesius. I've been checking the passenger lists during the famine but I get the feeling that my fellas came over later. Patrick and Jeremiah, sons of Patrick O'Sullivan and Margaret O'Brien are first found in Essex County, Massachusetts in the early to mid 1850's. Jeremiah married Margaret Warren d/o Daniel and Mary of Kerry on 19 Nov 1854 in Newburyport, MA. Daniel Warren was listed as deceased. Patrick married Hannah Wallace daughter of William and Hannah of Cork on 27 Oct 1855 in Newburyport. I haven't found Patrick and Margaret on the US census reports so I'm assuming they didn't immigrate. Good old County Cork is my brickwall. A big part of my problem is that I haven't studied that era or Cork well enough to understand the way things worked. Now ask me about my Frenchmen and I can practically tell you what they were thinking four hundred years ago. Sorry for babbling on...I get this way when I'm frustrated. Thanks for answering my post and forgive me for wishing my fellas weren't from such a prolific family. kevin <kevinmcc59@eircom.net> wrote: Hi Chris ,I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I can assure you those names would be widespread within the county. Stay well, stay safe, and may you always have enough, Chris