My great grandfather, Owen (Eugene) McCarroll (c. 1840 � 1895), came from the townland of Corkill, (or Corkhill as many of the recorded records indicate) in the parish of Clogher, County Tyrone. He was baptised and buried in the Eskragh R.C. chapel's graveyard. He was married in the Fintona R.C. Church which is in the parish of Donacavey. Owen went by that name and not Eugene - probably because that was his father�s name. Owen was the son of Eugene and Catherine Carroll who were farmers, and was born about 1840 in Donacavey. He married my great grandmother (registered as Eugene, but signed the register as Owen), Catherine McCusker, on 25 June 1867 in Donacavey. My great grandmother was from the townland of Augharonan, in Co. Tyrone, which I believe also is in Donacavey. Little is known of my great grandmother's family but we can make out a few facts about Catherine and how she existed. Catherine and Owen had a number of children: Ellen, b. 1871 - 1917, married Andrew Bogan; Patrick (also known as The Yank), b. 1873 - ? (He appears to have been buried in the family plot at Eskragh); Thomas, b. 1875 - ? married to Catherine (Kitty) Daly (Daley?) and emigrated to USA, perhaps from Newtownsaville; Owen, b. 1877 - ?, who married Brigid Conroy in Beragh, and lived in Curr. My grandfather was next: Michael Joseph (Mickey), b. 1879 � 1924. Then there were: Jane, b. 1871; and Hugh, b. 1883, both of whom lived in Corkill with their mother Catherine until her death in 1916. The family farm house in Corkill was there when I first visited but it was removed about November 1982, and I understand that the property is possibly owned by Devine family. The resting place is the family plot in the R.C. Church Graveyard in Eskragh (Eskra). Catherine McCusker's father was Patrick and she was born circa 1846 � 1851; she married Owen at "full age." (McCosker may be a variant of the name.) But, as is the case with most old Irish records, there is a discrepancy for the 1911 census lists herself as a 60 yr old widow while the 1901 census listed Catherine as a 45 year old widow. She had a possible sibling: John McCusker of Legmaghery, but little is known of him. Descendants of Owen and Catherine include the children of Andrew Bogan (Ellen) who still are in the Fintona area, while some have moved on to Dublin. The Donnelly�s live in Curr, Beragh; and they are related to Owen McCarroll and Brigid Conroy. The Coady family, who owe their lineage to Ellen and Andrew Bogan, still reside in the Dublin area, while Catherine �Kitty� Coady had a vegetable store in Irish Town before she passed away. She had three children: Mary, John and Patrick. My grandmother Agnes Bridget, or �Aggie,� was born around 1888 in San Francisco, California, USA to John Amos Gaffigan and Maggie Crennan. She was described in the San Francisco Call Index upon her death as being Mary Agnes (Aggie) Bridget Crennan Carroll. She remembered the great earthquake and fire of 1906. She left for Ireland when she reached majority, but we do not know if she accompanied Mickey McCarroll on that journey. But instead of being married in the Fintona area, where he chose to settle as a publican after residing in Omagh at least until 1914, they were wed on June 25, 1912, at St. Patrick�s Cathedral in Dundalk, County Louth. Mickey, or Michael Joseph, became a publican/auctioneer on Main Street in Fintona (the pub lately owned by Mr. Francis. McAtee). Michael and Agnes had a number of children, including my father: Michael Joseph, 25 March 1914; Patrick Eugene, b. 1915 who passed away after three days; Mary Catherine (who became Maura when she migrated to the USA), 1917 and passed away in 2004; Thomas Leo, b. 1918; Bernadette Anthony, b. 1919; and, Kevin Barry, b. 1921. Michael Joseph Carroll Sr. had migrated to California around 1899 to join his brothers in San Francisco: Thomas and Patrick, who were naturalized as USA citizen. In 1904 he gained citizenship as an American. After sometime he then returned to the Fintona area to get married and begin a family in 1912. There is some speculation that he was ill in California and returned to Ireland because of that reason, and had recovered. There was some gossip that he purchased the public house in Fintona from his mother's estate or from some relative of the McCuskers. And then there were stories that the family was to return to San Francisco when he became ill and passed away. My great grandfather was John Amos Gaffigan and he married Maggie Crennan. John had left Glasgow with his mother Mary and older brother Thomas in 1867 upon the death of his father Patrick. Although both boys were born in Scotland the parents were originally from Ireland. Maggie Crennan was originally from Queens County but had left for Northern California in the 1820s. We know that John came to Ireland in 1914, probably to see his daughter Agnes and son Michael Joseph who was born that year in Omagh. My grandfather, Mickey McCarroll, was to pass away at age 44 in Omagh. It after they had sold the pub that my grandmother packed up the children later that year and returned to San Francisco. Their voyage was on the S.S. Cameronia, a Lloyd�s mail ship which left from the Clyde in Scotland and picked up passengers at Moville, near Londonderry. There is more, but that gives you, the reader, the flavor of the kinship of Owen and Catherine McCarroll. Any help you can give in sorting this thing out would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Jim Carroll. j.j.carroll@earthlink.net