Am responding to numerous contributions about the Griffith's Land Valuation and the Revised Land Valuations after the Griffith's in hopes that what I have found will help others and that some of my "assumptions" are correct. My Irish ancestors either left or died in Counties Cork, Galway and Leitrim before the Girffith's Valuation; so all my research of Griffith's and the revised Land Valuations have lead me to siblings of my great great great grandfather Patrick Fee of County Leitrim. Am still stuck for "real" leads for my Cork O'Neil, Murphy and O'Connell ancestors and my Maddens of Galway. I know that my Fee family came from the Ballinamore area of County Leitrim. But I hsve never been able to find my great great great grandfather Patrick Fee who refused to leave his land during the Famine of the 1840s and 1850s. Most of his chidren left between 1848 and 1851. The family story states that Patrick remained in Irealnd, died there in 1853 and that after he died his wife Catherine Tubman Fee came to America with her 3 youngest childre and joined the rest of her children in Hingham, Massachusetts. I have found Catherine and the 3 youngest children on a Passinger Ship entering Boston in March of 1853 and settling in Hingham. I found a James Fee in Liscuilfea townland within the "Ballinamore area" of County Leitrim on the 1833 Tithe Valuation. By the 1854 Griffith's, James was gone, believe he died but since there are no death records for that period of time, I can only assume James died versus having left Ireland. A John Fee was listed on the 1854 Griffith's on the same Liscuilfea land along with a Rose Fee who was renting a small house from him. I traced John's family on the Revised Valuations; and in conjunction with 1901 and 1911 Census returns have identified all of his family members. Rose Fee either died or left in the late 1850s as she was crossed out on subsequent Revised Valuations and John never rented the house again. No death record has been found for Rose yet...but there "should" be one as there were death records at the time she no longer appears on the Revised Land Valuations....ugh...... I have traced, through family stories and John's children, the fact that he was the brother to my ggggrandfather Patrick Fee. Family stories also said that Patrick and John had a brother James Fee. I have theorized that the James Fee on the Liscuilfea land for the 1833 Tithe was this brother. And that Rose Fee was James' wife who as a widow when John "got" the land, rented from her brother-in-law. Using Irish naming traditions, I further substantiate this by the fact that my Patrick's third son was named James Fee. Naming traditions name the first son after the father's father, second son after the mother's father and the third son after the father's eldest brother. If James Fee on the Tithe of 1833 was John's father then after James had died, his wife Rose would have lived with her son John versus renting from him. Am I on the right tract believing that since Rose Fee rented from John Fee that she would probably have been John's sister-in-law versus his mother? What son would make his mother rent a house from him? I have further theorized that James and Rose Fee were husband wife with a Bridget Fee (from County Leitrim) who shows up in Hingham, Massachusetts with Patrick's children in the 1850s. This Bridget was the godmother to some of Patrick's grandchildren....I therefore theorized she was a close relative! From Bridget Fee's marriage record, her parents were a James and Rose (Stratton) Fee. Same James and Rose Fee of Liscuilfea? Hopefully some of my "deductions" will help others to research all land "valuations" (Tithe, Griffith's and Revised Land Valuations) as they present a marvelous image of whom lived where, who neighbors were and how the land passed from one family member to another. Usually the land went to the oldest son, but many times one finds daughter's getting the land...thus perhaps no sons or all the sons left Ireland or died. It is all a fascinating and fun detective's tracking! I am very open to any and all comments on my "theories" and deductions. Marcie