This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: GBarry4120 Surnames: Keyes, Keys, Kavanagh, Brophy Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.britisles.ireland.lex.general/2538.1.3.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello Jim, I apologize for the delay in replying to you. I have just returned home from a trip. Thank you very much for the offer of additional information about your family. I have traced many Brophys from Laois who settled in Paterson, New Jersey, where my mother's family lived. A few of the Brophys were related to my family by marriage. My mother's gg-grandmother was Ellen Keyes (Keys), who married Daniel Kavanagh, probably in the early 1820s. Daniel and Ellen lived at Clonboo just over the border in County Tipperary, where their 11 children were born. Daniel, Ellen and their surviving children migrated to the US in the late 1840s and 1850s. Most of them lived in Paterson, New Jersey, but some of them later moved to Minnesota to farm, including my ggg-gfather Daniel Kavanagh, who went to live with his oldest daughter and is buried in Dakota County, Minnesota. My branch remained in Paterson. Ellen Kavanagh (nee Keyes, wife of Daniel) also stayed in Paterson, where she had several other children living and also many, many Keyes relatives. Ellen died in 1880 in Paterson, at about age 78 or 80. It is my goal to try to figure out who all the Keyes in Paterson were (there were several hundred living there between about 1850 and 1900), how they were related to each other (nearly all of them were, in some way) and to find records for them in Ireland. I have had a small bit of success with that already, but still have much to do! I would certainly appreciate any information you could give me! Regards, Geralyn Wood Barry in Oregon Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.