This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: VESEY, MULRENIN, WARD, JOHNSTON, HARDIMAN, CRUISE, KILGALLON Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YWC.2ACI/4985.1 Message Board Post: WANTED TO MENTION THAT PENELOPE HAD SEVERAL DIFFERENT GIVEN NAMES: PENELOPE, ABBY, ABIGAIL, NABITHA...FOR A FEW. AM CERTAIN THAT HER FIRST NAME NO DOUBT WAS 'MARIA' MARIAH OR MARY AS SHE WAS CATHOLIC. (MARY PENELOPE VESEY) B.ABT.1808, ROSCOMMON, (FRENCHPARK, ETC.) HER MOTHER: CATHERINE MULRENIN, FATHER: MICHAEL VESEY. PENELOPE'S HUSBAND WAS PETER HARDIMAN/HARAGDON AND OTHER SPELLINGS OF THIS NAME. AS PEOPLE FROM IRELAND HAVE MENTIONED TO ME. PENELOPE'S SISTER WAS BRIDGET VESEY, SHE MARRIED MARTIN HIGGINS, THEY EVENTUALLY CAME TO THE USA FINALLY SETTLING IN DANE CO. WISCONSIN AND THEY ARE BURIED THERE IN RESURRECTION CEMETERY. THEY HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN. PENELOPE AND PETER HARDIMAN HAD THREE SONS: PETER (MY GR.GRNDFATHER) B. SEPT.1, 1844, JOHN B.ABT. 1839, PATRICK B. 1846 (?) PETER MARRIED SARAH ANNE JOHNSTON, AFTER ARRIVING IN THE USA, AND SETTLED IN GILES CO. VIRGINIA. WHERE IS PATRICK?? THEY ALSO HAD A SISTER MARY SHE IS BELIEVED TO HAVE MARRIED A MAGUIRE. JOHN LIVED FOR A! TIME IN GILES CO. VA. ALL THREE OF THE BOYS PARENTS DIED DURING THE POTATO FAMINE, 1845-48. THEIR SISTER EVENTUALLY BROUGHT PETER, JOHN, PATRICK TO AMERICA.JOHN HARDIMAN MARRIED ELMARTHA BRADLEY. DON'T KNOW WHO PATRICK MARRIED OR LIVED. PERHAPS, CINN. OHIO? THANK YOU. JACKIE PEARCE DOWNEN