Fran, I know we have spoke before about Sheas. I'm not finding parishes easily around Waterville but one of the comments given to me by the official from St John's in Tralee who notified me about my great-grandparents marriage record, was that Michael Shea had relatives listed in the parish. With his mother and sisters gone to America and I believe his father was dead, I don't know about any brothers, It could have been why they went there to be married. I would have thought they would have been married in Kildare where Bridget Dunn was from. But in reference to your query, John Joseph Shea goes back several generations in my family. Rick Shea