Hi Pat Thanks for reply. I have noted many female KEENAN marriages in the area around Tullylish and the first names are repeated in my tree ..could never be sure that they were related as I only have the Scots records as 100% verification of Thomas, William, Arthur and their marriages in Gilford or Laurencetown one sister Ellen (who never married). I imagine that there will have been other siblings who did not emigrate to Scotland and any Mary, Sarah, Anne, Margaret, Elizabeth and Cecilia KEENAN could be related. Possibly sisters or cousins, as their names appear regularly in each subsequent generation here in Scotland. I have Bernard and Patrick and Henry KEENAN as a branch living beside my family in Johnstone, Scotland but have never been able to establish a connection to them, although they lived yards from each other here. Do you know if Bernard & Mary TOMAN nee KEENAN married on Tullylish? Was there a townland mentioned..Drummarin and Letalin often appear with KEENAN names, did they remain in Ireland or emigrate? Any info would be extremely helpful Thanks and a *guid *new year in 2008. *'Lang may yer lum reek'* Paul Scotland Message: 1 Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 13:22:13 -0000 From: "patmol" <patriciamolyneux@btinternet.com> Subject: [NIR-DOWN] (no subject) To: <nir-down@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <000e01c84bb0$286fc500$4101a8c0@pat> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Paul .When my grt uncle Bernard Toman married in 1858 he married a Mary Keenan and a Rose Keenan as witness .There was also a Patrick Keenan as Bernards witness and a reference to a dispensation of consanguinity perhaps because they were cousins.Best wishes for 2008 Pat Molyneux