Hi: Have you considered submitting your ancestors' line to the 'Kelly Kanadian Kin' website. It is a site dedicated to rsearchers and resources of the Kelly surname in early Canada. Mary A. Kelly Kelly Kanadian Kin SUDBURY, Ontario Researchers' Pages http://www.cyberbeach.net/~mkelly/res.htm > >______________________________X-Message: #2 >Date: Mon, 09 Aug 1999 01:02:16 -0400 >From: "O'Leary" <oleary@net-link.net> >To: KELLY-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <37AE60D7.D3F3B0A5@net-link.net> >Subject: Mara Twp.Simcoe Co. Ontario >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >Hello Kell(e)ys: >My line descends from Martin Kelly b. 1802 Dublin, IRE and Catherine >Doolan b. 1819 County Roscommon IRE. I have them well documented after >the birth of their first son, Patrick, in 1840, Ireland, and their >immigration to Canada where a daughter, Margaret, was born in Quebec, >1843. They settled in Mara Township and had eight more children: James >1884, Catherine 1845, Michael 1847, Thomas 1849, Martin and John (twins) >1851, Edward 1856, and Mary 1857. Most of the Kelly brothers left Mara, >some settling in Michigan, Minnesota, and Montana. > For those of you who may have Kell(e)ys from Mara Township and who >need information, I do have the 885-p book, "They Came to Mara..." which >gives information on hundreds of families -- including Kellys from >Scotland. > Does anyone know the best way to begin looking for Kelly ancestors >in Ireland? > >Kelly O'Leary >