****** The following is from my own LOONEY research: information provided to me: Rutland Township, Rutland, Vt. 1860 John and Mary LOONEY. Rutland Township Mary LOONEY b. 22Feb1858 Parents: John LOONEY and Mary FITZGERALD. Ellen LOONEY b. 8Mar1864 Parents: John and Mary LOONEY. John LOONEY b. 6May1866 Parents: John and Mary LOONEY. (from the 1860 Census Rutland, Rutland Co., Vt.- Looney, John 32 gardener Ire. , Mary (FITZGERALD) 25 Ire. , Margaret 4 Vt. , Mary 2 Vt. , Thomas 5/12 Vt. ) Thomas LOONEY b. 3Sep1866 Parents: Thomas and Margaret LOONEY. Mary LOONEY b. 15Oct1866 Parents: John and Margaret LOONEY. Other listings for LOONEY but not in Rutland Township are: Catherine LOONEY b. 6Sep1861 Chester twp. Windsor Co. Parents: Patrick LOONEY and Mary RYAN Eliza LOONEY 1864 Chester Twp. Parents: Patrick and Mary RYNER *may be Ryan* other children listed for Patrick and Mary are: Henry b. 31Aug1864 (twin to Eliza? or different mothers afterall?) Thomas b. 9May1870 (from 1860 Chester, Windsor Co., Vermont Census- Looney, Patrick 35 day laborer Ire. , Mary (RYAN) 33 Ire. , Joanna 12 Vt. , Mary 9 Vt. , John 6 Vt. , Patrick 4 Vt. , Margaret 1 Vt. ) Also in Chester, Windsor, Vt. living alone is: Looney, Margaret 50 washerwoman Ire. Grudy, Vermont? R. A. LOONEY and wife Polly SCHOOLRIGE parents of: Walter G., b. 28Mar1895. (Not researching R. A. Looney, just a note as this refers to Looney in Vermont :) My tie to the LOONEY family is Eugene Oscar PRATT married Mary LOONEY 23-Nov-1874 and had son, Oscar Eugene PRATT b. 1876 Ludlow, Vt. resides Mt. Holly. Oscar Eugene PRATT married Margaret Lucy DANIELS and they are my gGrandparents. Now which of the Mary's did E. O. PRATT marry? Mary of John and Mary (Fitzgerald) Looney or Mary of Patrick and Mary (Ryan) Looney? I've gone with the Mary, daughter of John and Mary (Fitzgerald) all this time but that would make her 14 at the age of marriage (it was pointed out to me yesterday) and so I'm going to concentrate on researching more of Mary, daughter of Patrick and Mary (Ryan) Looney of Windsor Co., Vt. My grandmother's brother, Harrie Eugene PRATT's: Godparents were: Richard RYAN and Margaret Bradshaw. *This is a further proof that Eugene Oscar Pratt married Mary LOONEY, dau. of Patrick and Mary (RYAN) in 1874 she would have been 21 years old. ****** I apoligize for any confustion I may have caused in my haste to get some of my information. *long story* ~Marie