This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WWC.2ACI/2610.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Michael Shelley came from Whitehall, Co. Kilkenny as did his wife Bridget Martin. There birth dates would be between 1800 to 1825. There children were Catherine, Martin Luke and Mary and probably others. Luke, B-1847, went to California. Catherine Shelley B-1842 married James P. Culleton and two of her daughters married Maher bros. (neighbors in Ireland) after coming to the US-Imogene, Iowa.Other Culleton children when to their uncle Luke Shelly in California So, the Shelleys were from Whitehall. I don't know where that is, but it is probably on a map of Ireland. Maybe? Pat Maher