This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Hi1.2ACEB/301.1.1 Message Board Post: Hello Chris In my Morrissey family, I find William as the most predominant. I have ten (10) in my family, all born in Newfoundland. My first William, a Tailor by profession, first showed up in Newfoundland records with his nmarriage record of 1854. He died at the age of 68 which has his birth around 1827 but I have not been able to trace his origin. Jack Connors