I'm fwd'ing on this request from Emily Drummond, aka chief.uvcc@cmdgrp.hqusareur.army.mil. .Am searching for John William (or William John) Kirwan, born in Ireland in March 1856 and immigrated to the US in approx 1862 (according to 1900 census). His mother and father were John William (or William John) Kirwan and Ellen Clarey (Cleary). The son turned up in Bloomington, Illinois, in the 1880 census, but haven't been able to locate the mother or father or from where in Ireland the family immigrated (Counties Clare and Cork were a bust). Are you, by chance, related to this branch?? Charles F. Kirwan, Son of John William (1856) was my maternal grandfather. Emily Drummond