This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YWC.2ACI/5393.2 Message Board Post: Hello Jennifer, I wonder if the surname isn't actually McCarthy and got reinterpreted in US records because of the Irish accent/pronunciation. You may want to keep that idea in reserve esp. when looking at their census and civil/church records. Eilís O'Hara