This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Nolan Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/wd3.2ACIB/911.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Possibly a connection. Their is a Michael in my Nolan family, too, but he was the youngest of 13 children, was not born until 1895, and was the only one of his siblings who did not come to the US (he died young). But your Michael sounds like my Michael's uncle. Did your Michael James have a brother named Patrick? Patrick (b.Abt 1854) was my Michael's father (and my gg-grandfather), and Patrick had many siblings. And was your Michael from Borrisokane?