Elizabeth Mae McKENNA is my g grandmother and one of 7=(6 girls and 1 boy) She was b.ca.1865 Monaghan Ireland, came to US in steerage ca.1885+ and sisters already in US met her at NYC port. She m.ca.1895 in NYC(?) to Pierre Frederic THOUROT. They mainly lived in Brooklyn, NY and had their family. She d.ca.1952 in a hospital in Brooklyn, NY and became ward of state....so they probably put her in pauper's grave--(I cannot find any data on this yet, but was told this by her granddtr).... Strange enough, her name was on a deed for a plot in St. John's Cem and had buried her husband there who had died about 30 yrs before her....but there is another person in that plot who died a few years after and he still is a mystery to me- a John O'CONNOR. ***So i am having trouble proving all about her for years and years now, as i cannot find any b/m/d cert for her.*** Her Parents were: James McKENNA, b.1833/35 (of the 'Brianies' McKENNA's of Monaghan Ireland) and Bridget McKENNA, b.ca.1835 (of the "Ross" McKENNA's of Monaghan Ireland) James McKENNA's mother was Mary McMEEL of Monaghan Ireland......and do not know his father's first name yet. ******* *_*I am formerly a Suffolk Co Long Island girl and had been married to a HS guy, and we had 2 sons, and my husband passed on early in life at age 39, so a few years after had passed, i drove WEST and began a new pioneer life in MT in mid-1989, and met my soulmate here in Oct '91.....and we run a small ranch since, but it is up for sale now as we want to get us some land on a lake somewhere and build a cabin and have more time for him to fish, and me to write, read, and do genealogy.........(never too rustic though as i love my computer)-haha! Happy Trails, Joan in rural MT(i love to read, write, work on my computer and genealogy, but we do just a little bit of everything here)*_* Also, visit my 4 personal home pages on spirituality and genealogy: http://www.geocities.com/crystalwoman_2000/ crystalwoman@in-tch.com