I've been thinking that my Irish ancestor that crossed through Lancaster may have used a different name. I know that the Irish were not always welcomed in the United States in the mid 1800s. Could it be that he had used a different name and claimed to be English to have an easier go of it? My mother grew up believing that she was a McCOY and my McCOY grandfather never told her anything different. Our McCOY ancestor was an Irish immigrant. However, I had a difficult time locating any records about his family. In my family history research I finally stumbled across the marriage license in Lancaster County of my great grandmother and the license shows her married to a LAWS who immigrated from England. Then I was able to locate my "McCOYs" on the 1880 Federal and 1885 State censuses and they were listed with their father as LAWS. This was big news to us. Then I reread my great grandfather's obituary and noticed that even though his name was McCOY that the obituary stated his marriage date as the same as the LAWS and their birth year was only one year different. Could it be that LAWS was only used as an alias by my McCOY and then in later years he changed his name back to McCOY? Anyone have any thoughts about this or any ideas how I could check this out? John Seymour