In a message dated 4/14/2002 1:28:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Thanks Bill for your encouragement. It is a long hard road but I will > keep on. What name are you researching? > > Mary > Frew. In the 1851 census it was Threw. I have been to Ireland 9 times, beginning in 1960. I was fortunate to be able to meet two of my mother's sisters and a brother. Mother was the ninth of thirteen. I have dozens of living cousins, many of them still in the Cloughmills area. Bill.