This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Morrissey Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi1.2ACEB/301.1 Message Board Post: Dear Edna, William appears to have been a very popular name in the Morrissey family - I have 8 of them in my tree but mine all come from the Gaspe Area of Quebec, and most from Bonaventure Island, rather than from the Maritimes (although I have a couple that are not born into my tree but rather marry into it who are also William). The closest I can come to your date is John-Frederick-Wiliam Morrissey who was born in 1865. There were a lot of Morrissey's in Eastern Canada at that time and we trace our roots back to Patrick Morrissey and Mary Fitzgerald. Maybe there's a connection?