I have a 2X ggf named Joseph Coogan/Cogan and his wife (or possibly wives, his widow was younger than her son in the census before she died so could maybe have been a second wife -but my ggmother never told her children that there was) Living not far from him in upstate New York was a Maurice/Morris Coogan/Cogan. I have found a bunch of Maurice's records on Irish Genealogy, nothing from my Joseph. I am guessing they were brothers, Irish in upstate NY were rare, really rare, before 1880 and Maurice and his son Joseph (and the other children) came in 1837 aboard the Garrick. This is the time frame my family always talked about their Joseph coming to the states, but maybe it is a mixed family story. My grandmother used to go visit in Upstate NY and might have gotten a little this and a little that. My Joseph came in 1848 but all were from Dublin (several answered the census that way in 1870) There is rumor that my 2Xggmother was a Hayden (my grandmother put the name in my baby book) born in County Cork (from the history of St Joseph's RC church in Weedsport NY), I am copying this one entry to the list, anyone know how a mother would be a sponsor or might this be a grandmother? Name MAURITIUS COOGAN Date of Birth N/R N/R N/R Address N/R Father MAURITII COOGAN Mother ANNAE SPAIN Further details in the record Sponsor 1 JACOBO KEEFE Sponsor 2 ANNA SPAIN Priest J RICKARD About the record Book Number Page Entry Number Record_Identifier Image Filename N/R 43 N/R DU-RC-BA-754211 st.nicholas_mf_1823-1853_ba_0027 Eliz