Gerald- You must be related to Bridget Kirwan, whose grandfather Michael J. Kirwan was (among other things) a Congressman from Youngstown, OH. His father John was a coal miner in Wilkes Barre. I think Bridget mentioned that she had a cousin named Gerald. Is that you? Gerald Kirwan wrote: > Chris: > > This is another one of those True Kirwan's. I thought the list should > actually be Kirwan instead of Kirwin but I guess the person who works on > starting the list gets to pick the name of the list. Even my spell checker > wants to change Kirwin to Kirwan every time. > > We will need to see what we both have. My line of Kirwan's born in Ireland > and emigrated to the US in about 1868. They settled in the Pennsylvania > areas of Plains, Wilkes-Barre, Carbondale, Olyphant, and were coal miners > in the region. > > I found a Thomas Kirwan tombstone about a month ago from your time period. > I will have to look up the information. I am also looking for a Thomas > Kirwan, but this was not the one, but I copied down the information. Born > in Ireland and died in the area listed above. > > I also have some Bryne connections since a Bryne married a Kirwan relative. > > I am going to be out of town for about a week but will get back to you on > this. I may even be up in the Wilkes-Barre and Scranton areas checking out > cemeteries for Kirwan's. > > Gerald Kirwan > kirwan@pobox.com > ============================================== > At 08:28 PM 8/11/98 , Chris and Kathy Kirwan wrote: > >All right, let's let one of the Kirwans who can spell his name right get > >this going. My great grandfather Michael Kirwan was born in 1865 at > >Killeagh, in the District of Aughrim, Co. Wicklow. > >His father Thomas worked in the mines near Avoca. His mother Catherine > >(Byrne) > >also had sons Thomas (1864), James (1859), and Philip (1867). I have so > >far been > >unable to find a record of the marriage, death, or birth of Thomas > >Kirwan and > >Catherine Byrne. I do know that Michael and Philip emigrated to Boston > >in > >1891, and that Thomas and James wound up in Foxrock, Co. Dublin. I also > >have > >learned that Philip returned to Ireland for a visit in 1926, to visit > >his > >brothers in Foxrock. I also know from photos which he took that he > >visited > >Shillelagh, in the South of Co. Wicklow, and took pictures of a cottage > >believed > >to be near there. > >I do have records of many "other" Kirwans that I've come across in my > >research (as well as a few of those poor relations, the Kirwins, > >Kerwins, and other lesser branches of the family). All kidding aside, > >I'll try to match the info I have with your postings to come. > > > >Chris Kirwan > >