[email protected] wrote: > > HELP! I have two ancestors who arrived in the United States from Northern > Ireland aboard the "Catherine" from the Port of Killybegs in June 1804: > ARTHUR FAWCETT from Lochris in Mishue and CATHERINE FAWCETT from Mt. Charles > Inver, Drumhome. I have the following questions: > 1. What is Lochris in Mishue and where is it? Can't help on this one > 2. What is Mt. Charles Inver, Drumhome, and where is it? Not sure about the Inver or Drumhome bits, but there is a Mountcharles, or Mount Charles, four miles west of Donegal town, on the road towards Killybegs. > 3. Does anyone have any information regarding the FAWCETT family in Northern > Ireland? Should note that although Donegal, including Killybegs and Mountcharles, is in Ulster, it is not in Northern Ireland. The island of Ireland is divided into four provinces, Ulster, Munster, Leinster and Connaught. Ulster consists of nine counties, including Donegal, of which only six (not including Donegal) were partitioned into the separate statelet of Northern Ireland in 1922. Donegal is consequently in the Republic of Ireland > 4. Where is the Port of Killybegs? On the north side of Donegal Bay, county Donegal, some 17 miles west of Donegal town, which is at the head of the bay. Charlie