Cara, sorry, didn't get to message in a timely manner. Edward Patrick Flaherty B: 16 May 1844 was located on a number of US Census records in San Francisco, CA and Portland, OR Census, bot places he and my Gt Grandmother ( Mary Ahern ) Flaherty live.. One census listed a different year 1849, but since other census listed the year 1844 and also my family records also show 1844. Thats why I am pretty certain that year is the correct birth year. Every Census record here in US just showed Co Wexford as place of birth, nothing else. Family talked about the Flaherty's living on a place called Morgan's Hill a manor house they inherited. -- "cheers" Sharon from mountains of Idaho