This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Spence, Doherty Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DIB.2ACE/364.1 Message Board Post: I can't answer your question about civil parish, but in my notes I have this info from land records for David Spence: Tyrone Township, Le Sueur Co, Minn: Sect. 15, NW4, 3 Oct 1856 Original Entry, Patent 1 Oct 1895 My Dohertys lived in the same area in Pennsylvania. Hugh Doherty came to Tyrone Township at about the same time. Later his granddaughter married Martin Spence.