In a message dated 2/11/2005 11:12:06 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > something to consider...in the 5th century St Patrick was kidnapped by > Irish marauders and sold into slavery as a child (he later escaped and > returned to Britain, only to return to Ireland to convert the population) > but there could have been others like Patrick (ie, > Brits...anglo/saxon/roman) who were similarly abducted and sold into > captivity in Ireland. Also, didnt the Irish support the French during some > war a few hundred years ago...perhaps that also could explain an infusion of > continental blood carrying your far reaching lines. those are possibities but not my most promising personally i thing i am a decendent of a dannanberg who might of come to england under the normans to admister england but all the therorys will be proven when i get matches then the trail will tell me how when where and maybe why? i am waiting on the 2 farrells who besides the carrolls we wed farrells the most. Jim Denning -Ygenealogist-MTgenealogist using Genetics to connect Chelsea,Ma.-Woburn,Ma.-denning-dennen-danin-dinan-dinihey-denningston-dinning- carlon-carroll-dever-cogan-malone-heslin-piscopo-mazzola-martini-farrell-mchug h-farley-grimes-lynch-doherty-SanDanto,Ita-Adargh,longford-Revere,Ma-Wintrop,M a.- and ever an growing list