This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VWC.2ACI/980.21.1 Message Board Post: There are no Grace family members listed in the book, but (boy, are you lucky!) I was researching some Grace family members from Athy that I though might have come over with my family members, because one of them (Patrick) was a witness at the baptism of my gg-Uncle Michael on 12/1/1839 and there is another one in a suspect immigration record to New York.** Here are the St. Michael's Parish records on the Grace family: Marriages: 1/12/1701 Ann Grace to James McNamara, no locations 4/1/1845 Anne Grace to William Carty, no locations 2/11/1850 Edmund Grace of Duke Street (Athy) the Anne McCann of Duke Street 1/1/1788 Frances Grace of Tankardstown to John Grace of Tankardstown (cousins?) 11/24/1795 Margaret Grace to Thomas Kearan, no locations* 3/5/1832 Margaret Grace to John Manders, no locations 1/24/1823 Mary Grace to Edmond Brookes, no locations 2/22/1756 Mary Grace of Athy to Patrick Hall of Athy 2/21/1792 Mary Grace to Bryan Kilbride, no locations 10/29/1789 Mary Grace to Michael Neal, no locations 2/22/1805 Michael Grace to Catherine Powel, no locations 9/22/1884 Nicholas Grace of Sheean to Sarah Kehoe of Ballyroe 7/23/1839 Peter Grace to Mary Casey, no locations 1/1/1882 Thomas Grace of Chathan, England to Anne Doyle of Athy * indicated one that might be a misspelling of Keerwan or Kierwan since there was a Thomas who was a landlord later in Griffith's Valuation ** Grace family members below came on the Cynosure with a Michael Kerwin, age 19 from Liverpool to New York, arriving 9/7/1857: Thomas Grace age 22 Labourer Lawrence Grace age 29 Labourer Mary Grace age 40 wife Catharine Grace age 9 Bridger Grace age 7 My Michael would have been 17 at the time, so this might be a connection. As for Ryan, there are several mentions of a Thomas Ryan in the book. He was a squire and an officer of the Kilcock jail, and was involved in transferring prisoners Lawrence O'Connor and Michael Griffin from Kilcock to Naas. They were ambushed by United Irishmen in July, 1795. He voted against proclaiming martial law in Kildare on May 8, 1797, on the side of the Duke of Leinster and is mentioned as having voted against the Crown in the summer 1797 assizes (criminal court hearings) in Athy. Please keep me posted on your Grace research. I am working a theory that they might have been friends or neighbors of my family in Athy in the 1825-1860's period. All of the sons in my great-grandfather's generation (born in the period 1826-1835) immigrated eventually to St. Louis; and were all blacksmiths except for one. Cheers, Kevin Kerwin