Fred, In Norwich, St. Mary is the older of the two cemeteries mentioned. Burials began about 1850. A few years ago, I copied headstone inscriptions which included place names of birth in Ireland - about 300 of them. These were published in the June and Sept 1999 issues of the Connecticut Nutmegger (csginc.org). I have the original entries and am willing to check them for anyone interested. However, there are probably several thousand stones in the cemetery, mostly Irish. Many of these are from Kerry. Today, findagrave.com lists 844 transcribed headstones, many with photographs. The cemetery corporation administers both cemeteries, across the street from one another. St. Mary's and St. Joseph's Cemetery, 815 Boswell Ave, Norwich 06360, (860) 887-1019. Paul Keroack    From: "frederick.raudat@att.net" <frederick.raudat@att.net> To: "irl-Kerry@rootsweb.com" <irl-Kerry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 8:21 AM Subject: [IRL-KERRY] Springfield, Holyoke, Willimantic, Norwich - People from Kerry The thread about people from Kerry coming to these areas is really interesting to me.  My Mara relatives settled both in Norwich and Willimantic and the brothers of my direct Mara ancestor settled up near Ware, Mass in New Braintree area.   They came from Skahies in County Kerry as far as I can tell and many of that family were parish members of Firies.  Norwich to Willimantic was and is known as the "mill corridor" because there were so many mills.  My relatives were farmers, but some of their children worked in the mills.   The cemetery in Ware, Old St. William is mostly Irish and St.Mary's and St. Joseph's in Norwich have many, many Irish immigrants buried there.   Regards,   Fred _______________ ---------------        Policies of the IRL-Kerry List: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html                                                To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. To subscribe to the Digest version of the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'subscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message. To visit the County Kerry Research and Resources Page go to: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ Share your stuff!  If you transcribed research data, share it with the Irish genealogy community. Contribute it to the Kerry website to reach a wide audience. Contact Ann Hammer, data maintenance.  Her contact info is at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/ contrib.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-KERRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message