This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Meagher Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/4NB.2ACI/72.3 Message Board Post: Family legend suggests a relationship to Thomas Francis Meagher but I have yet to discover any evidence. I am related to a Meagher family from Limerick, Ireland. Emond Meagher or Maher married Mary Malone in the late 1830s in Ireland. Their youngest son, Edmond and his mother came to Australia around 1861 and settled in Ballarat, Victoria. Please let me know if you think there is any relationship.