Hi Margaret, I suspect that McAnally could have been McAnaully or some version thereof. My "cousin" who married into the family in the early 1940's got the information from her husband's father (my grandmother's brother) and she says the way he pronounced it made it sound more like Macanaully than McNally. My great grandmother, Ann Jane McAnally Wilson, named my grandmother Ann Jane also, but as far as I know they both went by Annie. I have an obit for Elizabeth Wallace McAnally's brother, John Wallace. He was born in 1808 in Monaghan County. Someone on another list said that McNally was a Monaghan Co name & I thought that would make sense in my case with a Wallace-McNally marriage. I ordered the 1851 census from my FHC to try to find my great grandmother's siblings. For now, she's the only one whose name I have. It looks like it's going to be a long wait, though. I'm into the 6th week already. Thank you for writing. I'll let you know what I find in the census. Sue Marcus In a message dated 3/13/00 7:39:05 PM Eastern Standard Time, margaret.steele@virgin.net writes: << I don't know if this is any connection but I have McNULTY, McINULTY, McANULTY, McANALTY's (all the same family) I think from Monaghan, although I am still looking for hard evidence. What caught my eye in your message was the name Ann Jane. My g. grandmother MARY McANULTY's daughter and grand-daughter were called ANNIE JANE (Jane wasn't the middle name, they were called Annie Jane) and I haven't worked out where the name came from. >>