Have you tried looking for them in the Dublin directories ? I am sorry for the delay in answering your mail but I have had a bad fall and not only find it difficult to get to the computer but also can only sit for a few minutes. I will either answer your mail now or come back to it some time later. This is a signature message sent to everyone so please read it as it applies to yourself. Many thanks for your patience, kind regards, Valerie > -----Original Message----- > From: irl-dublin-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:irl-dublin-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of > Geraldine Kempton > Sent: Friday, 13 October 2006 3:18 AM > To: irl-dublin@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [IRL-DUBLIN] John Doyle a mason > > > Maureen, > > Thank you for your e-mail. I just haven't been able to get > a lead on the > parents, John Doyle and Catherine Dearing, of my > grandfather, Lawrence > William Doyle born in May 1840. All we have ever heard was > Dublin. He came > to the US with a brother in 1866 (according to US census). > I can find no > record of where he landed or on which ship he arrived. My > grandfather and > his brother, Joseph, were stone masons in the States. > Joseph lived in > Kansas and died there. My grandfather worked with the > Santa Fe RR and moved > around. > > Do you know of any records or how to get info from those > other towns in the > Co. of Dublin? Do you live in Ireland? I and some of my > family went to > Ireland several years ago. We went to a genealogist and he > told us to try > to trace them thru the Dearings, because it is a less > common name. However; > not knowing anything about Catherine nor her family, I have > not had any > luck. > > Thank you again for your info. > > Gerry > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Maureen Doyle" <maurang@alphalink.com.au> > To: <irl-dublin@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:35 AM > Subject: Re: [IRL-DUBLIN] John Doyle a mason > > > > > > > > Geraldine Kempton wrote: > > > >>Everyone is talking about the 1838 directory. Is there a > John Doyle as a > >>mason in Dublin? > >> > >>Gerry > >> > > Perhaps John Doyle was a mason, not in Dublin City, but > in Co Dublin. In > > South Co Dublin, in the Dublin hills, the townlands of > Barnacullia, > > Ballyedmonduff, Glencullen and other nearby townlands > were stonemasons' > > villages. Barnacullia in particular has a number of Doyle > families. In > > the 1901 & 1911 census nearly every household had at > least one member > > who was a stonecutter or stonemason. My late father in law, Joseph > > Doyle, himself a stonemason, came from one of these > families. Maureen > > Doyle > > > >> > >>----- > >> > >>> > >>> > >>>------------------------------- > >>>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >>>IRL-DUBLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the > >>>quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >>> > >> > >> > >>------------------------------- > >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >>IRL-DUBLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the > >>quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > IRL-DUBLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-DUBLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >