Just read Sallyanne lovely story I have a friend in Kerry who is going to put signs up for me in some of the churches in the area I think my O'Connor's were from. She finds it rather strange for us all to hunting around ever day for people who are long gone. What a lovely person your cousin is Sallyanne to send the peat and stones. I had to explain to my friend in Kerry that as a child I had no grandparents., as my mother was in a home most of her childhood. She knew her mother but the relationship was not good. I remember going to my mum's uncles funeral when I was about 15 , my mother said to me "Don't turn around but that's my mother sitting over there." And yes you guess it , I straight away turned .My mum and she were so much alike , when the funeral crowd came out of the Church she did not come over to speak to us, you would have thought she would like to meet her grandchild . So to fill in the blank pages of my heritage I keep looking. So wish me luck with the signs in Kerry. By the way SallyAnn, I have a Daniel O'Connor witness to the baptism of Catherine O'Connor, baptised in Kiltallagh 1859. Her parents were Thomas O'Connor {Connor] and Elizabeth Teahan. Happy St Patrick's Day to one and all Trish in Sydney