In 1999 I corresponded by email with Brian W. HANDCOCK (then residing in Scotland) who was a descendant of John HANDCOCK (b c 1880) of Boherard, Ballinacolla, Queens County. As so often happens, his email address is no longer current and I have no other contact address for him. I would very much like to communicate and pass on to him some 'new' ancestral information. I am hopeful that through this list someone else will know of his HANDCOCK research in Co Laois and can pass this message on to him. His ancestors were also in Abbeyleix and Rathdowney and related surnames were REDHOUSE and FAIRBROTHER. Jo Grant (Australia) - also with HANDCOCK ancestry in Co Laois, (Stradbally); Co Wexford (Whitechurch and Kilmokea), Co Westmeath (Athlone and Moydrum).