This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCann Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DYC.2ACE/400.2.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi Marci I have Patrick McCann married to Bridget Lavelle(but this could be wrong). My ggg grandfather Laurance had 6 brothers and sisters (this is pieced from a letter from one of Patrick and Laurance's brother's, John, from Ireland to Laurance in the City of Westchester, New York; dated May 29, 1938) From an 1871 census, I have figured that Laurance was born in 1811. My grandmother, who has passed away, had worked on our family tree. The letter from Ireland does say that "We have not heard one work from the McCanns this 2 years, but one simple word from Patrick and then he was a mind to come home. They being so far from you, it is not likely that you would no much about them."