This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McElroy Classification: Marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hF0.2ACIB/573.1.2.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Sorry Geraldine but our branch of the McElroy clan came directly to Canada from Ireland but were originally from the Isle of Mann. They lived in Scotland for several generations and only a short time in Ireland before emmigrating to Canada.I haven't come across the name Browne McElroy. Having died in 1940 Browne would be one of the more recent generations.