Julie, The following links include the history of the primary mills in Willimantic - the last one is an organization that may have surviving records. I'm not sure if the mills recruited in Kerry, but I did have 19th century Kerry cousins who worked at the thread mill in Willimantic. Some went there from Norwich which also had many mills with Irish workers. Nearby Colchester had a rubber mill which definately recruited in Cahirciveen, but earlier, in the 1850s. New London was not a city with a great number of mills, as it was primarily a port, but it did have some. Paul Keroack  http://www.past-inc.org/Willimantic/overall_history.htm http://www.textilehistory.org/WillimanticCottonMills.html http://www.millmuseum.org/ ________________________________ From: Julie Hu <mcelroy22000@yahoo.com> To: "irl-Kerry@rootsweb.com" <irl-Kerry@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 9, 2013 9:47 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Springfield, MA New London and Willamantic were also great attractions for people from Kerry, especially Caherciveen and Bolus. My grandmother told us that "the mill" paid her way over and "took care" of her (this was in the 1890s). One of my goals is to find the name of the mill and see if it advertised in Kerry and if there are any surviving records of the employees. ________________________________ From: sandy stegmayer <ssteg@verizon.net> To: pegassi@verizon.net; jeannew.baldwin@gmail.com; IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2013 1:26 AM Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Springfield, MA   I suggest you contact John O'Connor who writes a genealogy column for the Springfield Republican. You can access them on masslive.com. He is also at the Historical Museum which is part of the Springfield Library system. Good luck. Sandy -----Original Message----- From: pegassi@verizon.net Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 1:00 PM To: jeannew.baldwin@gmail.com ; IRL-KERRY@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] Springfield, MA    Many Kerry peopled settled in Holyoke as well. The many factories that    offered work was very appealing for those willing and able to work.    What options are you trying to narrow down? NEHGS is a great source for    researching family.    Peg Gingras    On 08/09/13, Jeanne Baldwin<jeannew.baldwin@gmail.com> wrote:    So many people from Kerry settled in the Springfield area. Could anyone    suggest some MA resources on-line that could assist me in narrowing down a    few options? I know of Hampton and Chicopee as locales. I am looking for    people from Ventry who left in the 1880's.    Jeanne from CA    Researching Lynch, Manning, Dunleavy, Kevane, Fenton and ?    _______________    ---------------    Policies of the IRL-Kerry List:    [1]http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~irlker/mailing.html    To   unsubscribe   from   the   list,   please   send   an   email  to    [2]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    [3]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:    [4]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. 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