Hi all Ascension Parish, LA listers, My sources for this are the Diocese of Baton Rouge Catholic Church records, Louisiana census records, and family rememberances. I am still looking for traces of Thomas O'Malley, b. 1833, the Irish immigrant son of Thomas O'Malley and Ellen McDermot who married Katherine Rush in April of 1865 at the Catholic church in Ascension Parish, maybe Donaldsonville. Katherine/Catherine/Kate Rush was quite a bit younger than Thomas O'Malley, she was born about 1849, her parents were Thomas Rush and Catherine Gafney. All three were born in Ireland. I believe the Rush family was also in Ascension Parish, but I haven't proven it yet. Kate had two children with Thomas, John, b. 1866, and Marie Ann, b. 1868. In May of 1872, Kate Rush died, as is again recorded in the Catholic Church records. In 1874, Thomas O'Malley remarried to Mary Burk(e), b. about 1850, parents unknown but born in Ireland. Mary is listed in a census as being born in Louisiana. Mary and Thomas had three sons, Thomas, b. about 1874-5, Charles, b. 1876, and Patrick, b. 1878, all born in Louisiana and their baptisms recorded by the church. Thomas O'Malley worked as a levee contractor on the Mississippi, and family lore has it that he did quite well for himself until a flood of the river completely washed him out and 'broke his heart'. I know that the youngest son, Thomas, stayed in Louisiana, eventually moved to New Orleans where he had a wife and at least one daughter. Don't know the name of the daughter, but she married an Italian who had a night club in the French Quarter, and they had one daughter. Thomas' wife died in the mid-1950s. I know this much from the fuzzy recollections of one of my uncles who visited them at that time. One of the other sons, Charles, left Louisiana, played baseball for St. Louis for a time, became an electrician, and worked his way west putting up telephone/telegraph lines until he got to Las Vegas, New Mexico where he fell in love with Augusta Fleck and settled for the rest of his life. He is my great grandfather. We are told that there were still lots of relatives in Louisiana as recently as the 1950s -- anybody left??? Haven't found clues!!! Help! Thanks, Anne Ogle-Leonard Albuquerque, New Mexico _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com