Someone related to one of the Maher lines that first appeared in the mid nineteenth century, Naugatuck, CT, where my family arrived ca. 1841, has begun to send me transcriptions of letters that had been sent back and forth between America and Ireland in the mid nineteenth century. I am trying to figure out exactly where the writer of most of the letters was from, possibly Queen's County, (per Griffiths research) but not sure. Some things mentioned are: (1856, Timothy Meagher to Thomas Meagher) "Let me know how all my neighbors are getting on, especially the Heffernans and the Russells and also let me know how my neighbors in foreign lands [are] getting on." (1861, from Thomas Meagher to his brother) "The pleasure I have in this country is to go to see the Irish folks that live around me when Sunday comes. They all [like] me well and most of them are from Tipperary." (1864, from Thomas Maher to his brother) "...let me know how all inquiring friends and neighbors are and how they are all in [Thurles] and the hollows and if Michael has any notion of coming to this country again there is a good deal of immigrating to this country these times." (1864,to Anthony Maher from John Heffernan, Saratoga County, NY) "Let me know how Richard Condon and family is...William Heffernan and family...Michael Moloney and family...the widow Conway and family...Denis Conway and family...Patrick Ryan at the river and family is." -Janet Maher (http://www.artmattersonline.net)

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