As new members are asked to introduce themselves and tell the subjects of their searches, I will comply. I am Rachel Smith. My families lived primarily in County Longford, but there are several frustrating connections into Westmeath I'm working on. The one I'll tell about is a Nangle family who lived near Mullingar, and there are conflicting family tales, each more romantic than the last. My Scottish ancestor Patrick Lindsay Crawford came to Ireland as a Jacobite refugee with a price on his head sometime between 1700 and 1715. He married "Lady" Emily Nangle, niece of "the famous Dr. Nangle of Mullingar" at Multifarnum Abbey. Her father was rector of the Abbey. Others say he was the "Earl of Costello". But other relatives say Emily was Catholic and this makes more sense. The Abbey was Catholic, and a CofI rector would not likely be a Jacobite! Further, Canon James Leslie's Irish Clergy lists no Nangle CofI cleric anywhere near that time and place. The "father" was probably Emily's family's priest, not her parent. The Abbeys were closed at that time, and priests had to serve their parishioners from in hiding and in danger. Emily was a "Lady" which meant Patrick had to have been known to her family to have even met her. This makes me believe she was the daughter of one of the Jacobite Nangle gentlemen mentioned in King James Army lists, though I have found none whose daughter would be called "Lady." Maybe my G-G grandparents were conveying that Emily kept her pinafore clean and did not talk back to her mother. And that she was not to be seen as some common girl that an adventurer could pick up. Or maybe she was a lady in the sense of being from a landed family. (They were very class conscious and took stock in such matters. Anyhow, the Jacobite Nangles I've located soon after forfeited their land for their service to the Old Pretender.) I understand King James did dispense some titles to Irish supporters, especially if an ancestor had been stripped in the Plantation when the land and power was taken away from Catholic nobility. It's possible Emily's father was in that group. Another point is that Patrick belonged to a historically recorded family, the Crawfords of Kilbirnie who were intensely Presbyterian. Scottish national ists could be both Protestant and Jacobite. This family split on Prince William and King James, but not on religion! So Patrick's marriage to a Catholic girl, even of such great respectablity was a Romeo and Juliet situation. It is probable that both families would have disapproved, and Patrick did not tell his folks at that time. I have evidence Patrick took Emily to be near some Crawford cousins in Fermanagh. They had a baby boy named William in 1715, and it was necessary for Patrick to slip home to tell about his family and see whether it was yet safe to bring them home. He died in Edinburgh before he reached home. How I would love to know how Emily spent the rest of her life. Patrick had made good provisions before leaving, arranging a "tutor"[like a guardian, not a teacher] for William, and apparently financial arrangements(it's known he had done some trading in the West Indies), so that William was able to marry well and become a middleman, the best opportunity if your people had not come to Ireland in the wave of Plantation settlers. He was brought up Church of Ireland, indicating the Nangles did not bring him up. A lesson one can learn here is to trust family stories only so far, because the teller usually doesn't know the historical context of what's been handed down and inocently warps the facts. I also have an interest in the Moores of Bunbrosna, Rathaspick and the Robinsons of Kilbeggan whom I'll leave for another time. Rachel Smith