This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cawley/McCawley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/zQz.2ACEB/618.1 Message Board Post: John Edward Cawley (Sr.), born in the town of Castlebar, County Mayo in 1776 and enlisted in the 88th Regiment (Lieutenant Colonel Alexander's Connaught Rangers) on the 1st of December 1802 at the age of 24 at Dumfries in the County of Dumfries. Married Margaret BURKE/KIRK?, date Unk, who went with him to Portugal during the Peninsular War. They left daughter Maragaret with grandparents (she married Michael Flanigan.) had 2 sons, Edward and John (Jr.) and another daughter Bridget, that we know of and other children who died in Portugal while he was serving there. He was pensioned off in 1817, returned to Ireland and moved to New Brunswick, Canada in 1832 with his children. He left St John, New Brunswick Oxford County in 1855 with his son Edward to live in Ingersoll, Oxford Cty, Ontario until 1863 and then moved to Monterey (Russell Twp.) New York where he died in 1872.