First of all may I thank you for the offer of this look up....It may indeed be a blessing. I am attempting to locate in Bristol Co, a Hugh (possibly John) Lally who was born in IRL. He married a Bridget O'Hearn, also born in IRL. They are the parents of my husbands great grandfather Anthony H. Lally. So far I have had no luck locating the family after immigration to the US. We believe Anthony to have been born about 1850, We have been searching the south as that is where MA Archives sent us to look for Anthony's birthplace. We had no luck. I have just received Anthony's pension application for his years as a Union sailor during the civil war. In the record he states his place of birth as Fall River. He enlisted from New Bedford in 1861 or 62. It is very possible that Anthony had a brother named either Michael or Patrick. I do know there was a Michael Lally who enlisted in the same unit as Anthony and was killed in VA later in the war. Sorry, I am getting too wordy. My hope is that you may find the family in the Fall river area in 1850. If I don't find them there then will later try the 1840 and 1860 census. I shall also try to obtain MA state census records and check those. I thank you for any information you may find....if you find none, you will still have my utmost gratitude. Gena Gates Lally Sun City AZ

At 12:23 AM 3/5/01 -0700, you wrote: >I am attempting to locate in Bristol Co, a Hugh (possibly John) Lally who >was born in IRL. He married a Bridget O'Hearn, also born in IRL. They are >the parents of my husbands great grandfather Anthony H. Lally. So far I >have had no luck locating the family after immigration to the US. I checked all the Lallys listed in the 1850 census in Massachusetts and there are none that match. Perhaps they were in Rhode Island which is just across the river from Fall River.