This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cronyn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YWC.2ACI/4934.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Dear Eve, My family were Church of Ireland. I have in my possession notes written about 50 years ago by Eileen Primrose Cade (formerly Cronyn). Her father was Dr Grattan Robert Cronyn 1864-1922 and Grandfather Dr John Cronyn, a surgeon in Dublin. According to her notes on the family, "An uncle was reputed to be once Bishop of Toronto (an uncle of my father's I mean)". This may have been Benjamin Cronyn. However I am assuming that he would have had to have been a great uncle to fit in the dates you have given. Was it just Benjamin Cronyn who went to Canada or did his parents and siblings also go? I also understand that Hume Cronyn, the actor, was a descendant of Bishop Benjamin Cronyn? My grandfather Eileen's brother always said that he was some distant cousin. Kind Regards, Rowena