This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Byrne Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WWC.2ACI/3246 Message Board Post: According to an obituary of my paternal great grandfather (John P. Byrne, died 1906, Louisville, Ky.), his father was Lawrence Byrne who "came from Ireland as a youth about 1815". Lawrence Byrne spent most of his life in America in Louisville but may have been in Maryland around Frederick Town when he first emigrated. On Lawrence Byrne's gravestone (1832, Louisville) he was a native of the townland of Stakally, county of Kilkenny. I do not know anything about his parents or any siblings. He named his sons James Lawrence and John P. (Peter or Patrick). I am eager to know if there might be any information available which would shed more light on this ancestor. Thank you for any help you might be able to give. Anne Rockwell, Louisville, Ky., USA