Hello, I would like to contact people researching any of the following names from either the Mountrath/ Camross or the Errill/ Rathdowney areas. Many interconnected families from this region migrated to Melbourne & other parts of Victoria in the 1840-1860 period.My particular interests are Lynch, Delaney, Pratt. Other connected families are Bowe,Bergin,Breen,Creagh,Delahunty,Dowd,Goss,Hennessy,Kilmartin,Lalor,Shiels,Tidd.A number of people are researching branches of these families.A few years ago I wrote to the Laois newspaper re Camross, & amongst the replies I heard from Kieran O'Dea from Errill who sent me the cemetery records from Errill where Michael Lynch had erected a gravestone to his family.In turn I sent a copy of "Pubs,Punts & Pastures" donated by the authors, Joan Carstairs & Maureen Lane. This was the story of Michael's half sisters, the Dowds, his niece, Maria Kilmartin, all from the region & the Dodd sisters from Birr.Michael was the instigator for most of the families named above migrating to Vic.Many of us would love to find any connections who remained. So many came here that perhaps only the older family members remained. Maureen Doyle. http://www.alphalink.com.au/