In a message dated 8/19/2004 5:07:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > It is reasonable to assume that most or all of the donors were Catholic and > they had come from the geographical area served by the Diocese of Ardagh and > Clonmacnoise, which includes almost all of Longford, Leitrim below Lough > Allen, and small slivers of Offaly, Roscommon, and Sligo. Typical Longford > and Leitrim names are particularly prominently represented among the donors. > Since collections took place in 1842, these were pre-Famine immigrants. > let me guess was chelsea revere and winthrop in the places contributions came from Jim Denning 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.-sprague- and ever growing list