Hello Sharon Thank you for the prompt response. I've spent so much time researching my Byrne family (paternal line) I have not done much on the McGraths. It was only when it was pointed out to me about this family of McGraths who were FW immigrants that I started looking. Still I have hardly scratched the surface. I believe the FW McGrath family were neighbours of the Tremblays in Gloucester. If I recall they attended the same church. My first cousins have a double connection between the two families in more recent years. Their father (my mother's brother) who was descended from Michael McGrath on the maternal side, around 1948 married a woman whose was a grand-daughter of Nicholas Tremblay from his marriage to Elizabeth Seguin McGrath, daughter-in-law of Michael. A Tremblay lived two doors up from my grandmother - that's how they met. All of this anecdotal stuff is what has led me to pursue the possibilities. According to the FW CD, Ballinultagh is in Mullinacuff parish. I'll happily pursue all leads. There was one Maher from Carnew who emigrated in 1849. That's not very near Ballinulta. My Byrne family from Wicklow settled about 40 miles south of Ottawa. Many other FW families settled there also. The McGraths seem to have come directly to Bytown - along with many other FW folks. Michael was not living with his family in the 1851 census. He lived just across the Ottawa River, and was a boarder. I have never found anything about Michael's family that is backed up by solid reliable evidence. Mary McGrath (FW family) was a widow by the 1851 census. I have not found any other William and Mary McGrath couples in this area at that time. Nor have I found any death records for William or Mary McGrath. I shall shortly begin trying variations on the spelling of their name to see what I can come up with. If Michael is not from the FW family then I have nothing on him prior to his marriage and the fact that he arrived in 1847 from somewhere in Ireland. Incidentally, Kathleen Byrne from "my" Byrnes in Wicklow married a Kavanagh in the 50s or 60s. She lives in Co Wexford not far away. Any connection to you? Thanks again, Ann ===================== Hi Ann - Well, I have read your story and I think it's most certainly worth your time to research as much as possible, even tho there is that discrepancy in wives' name. The fact that the emigrant McGraths had that connection to the Gloucester Tremblays, and then (what you think might be) their granddaughter (when widowed young) married a Tremblay of the same Tremblay line indicates more than a coincidental connection between emigrant generation and Elizabeth's generation. Might I ask, how do you know the emigrant generation had a Tremblay connection in Gloucester?