Hello Galway List, I have just joined this list. I am an experienced researcher of Irish genealogy who finally decided to trace my Holland family roots from County Galway. If anyone else is searching this family, please contact me. I have yet to identify the Parish and townland that Thomas Holland and his niece Catherine Holland left in County Galway. I have a few, peripheral clues that I am following. Catherine Holland and Thomas Holland ended up in west-central Pennsylvania in the 1850's. They appear to be associated with members of the Corcoran family and a member of the Mealy family who was recorded as a "native of Baker, Co. Galway, Ire." I can not find "Baker" as a place name. Any ideas? The priests often rendered place names as phoenetically close as they could. Thor Conway in California