This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MCELROY Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/hF0.2ACIB/631 Message Board Post: My Father was adopted as Lawrence Patrick Kavanagh , but have since found his birth parents were Parick McElroy and Bertha Mann. Please can any one help me trace where they came from. Bertha worked for his adopted Mother a Spimster in Auckland, New Zealand, and that is all I know about her.Dads full mane was Lawerence Patrick Samuel McElroy-Kavanagh.