Hello List, I am new to researching in Ireland and am trying to track my great grandmother Ann BRYAN who emigrated to Australia in the mid-1870s. Her mother Mary who could have been Mary NAIL/NEIL/BRYAN or OBRIEN joined her daughter about 10 years later. Names fitting the above have been found on Shipping Registers in Queensland in similar time frames. On both accounts, the ships have left from Plymouth and/or London. The ladies in question were definitely Irish and from Tipperary. Was it normal for the Irish to emigrate or be recorded as leaving from England; or is it more likely that they had been living in England for some time or went there for the purposes of emigration to Queensland, Australia. I will welcome any ideas or suggestions. Estelle _________________________________________________________________ careerone.com.au http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fadsfac%2Enet%2Flink%2Easp%3Fcc%3DNWS014%2E19163%2E0%26clk%3D1%26creativeID%3D28927&_t=752722611&_m=EXT