Mike and James, This is indeed interesting. Mike, if your father was first cousins with my John Farrell, then his father must have been Patrick. Is that right? I might have pictures of Patrick also. I have a 1965 legal document establishing John Farrell's title to the farm at Cloghan which writes Patrick off as dead-and-we-don't-know-anything=else. They did this to my great grandmother too, even though they knew darn well where all her descendants were. James, I have a double Farrell connection because we have very strong circumstantial evidence that one set of my great grandparents were cousins of some degree through their Farrell lines. The one line we have direct memory of and contact with goes back to Cloghan, next to Annyalla in Co. Monaghan. The other is a dead end at a wedding in Liverpool in 1863. Here is what I know: Matthew Gannon (originally Guinane, b. 1834-8 Killaloe, Co. Clare) married Mary Farrell (b. 1838 Ireland) at St' Patrick's Liverpool in 1863. In 1865 they had a son. John Matthew in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Mary's parents were Ann and John Farrell. John is listed as deceased and as a clothier on the civil registration of the marriage. I have documentary evidence for all of the preceding. The family story is that Matthew beat some guy up for "insulting" Mary and it looked like the guy was going to die so his cousins who were in Brooklyn bundled Him, Mary and the baby on the next ship out of port—they were a seafaring bunch. The Gannon family did not show up back in Liverpool until the 1881 census. In a box we have of things my great grandfather kept and passed on to my great aunts. There are two primary school textbooks that have "John Matthew Gannon Annyalla NS" written on the inside cover. So evidently my on the lam ancestors went to Mary's family for shelter. Oh, but the guy didn't die so no murder here. Here is my big leap. Since Mary's father, John, was a Clothier, it seems likely that he would have lived in a town or city, right? Castleblaney would seem like the most likely place, no? I don't know exactly when John died but I haven't been able to find him in any of the directories on ancestry. So, in short, I am looking for John Farrell married to Ann who would have had a daughter in 1838 possibly in Castleblaney. And I want to know the connection back to the Cloghan Farrells. One more thing, I'm also interested in any Farrells or Marrons from Monaghan that have the names Agnes or Dympna in their lines. Margaret