This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Morrissey, O'Toole, Hennessey, Ledwell, Whitten Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Hi1.2ACEB/327 Message Board Post: My Joseph MORRISSEY was from (according to family history) County Limerick. He married Ellen KEARNEY in St. John's, Newfoundland in ~1830. They had 2 children, possibly four. Bridget was the oldest. She married a WHITTEN in St. John's, Newfoundland. Next in line was my great great grandfather, John MORRISSEY. He married Elizabeth HENNESSEY in St. John's, Newfoundland in ~1860. In 1867, my great grandmother, Hannah MORRISSEY, was born. In ~1870, John died at sea. Elizabeth remarried Patrick LEDWELL. They moved to Chicago in 1872 and had 6 children together. In 1886, Hannah married John Joseph O'TOOLE, Sr. in Chicago.