DALEY< DALY< DAILY, DAL*, DALLY They were illiterate & spoke with brogues. I've researched one family over 8 yrs. Suspected surname spelling was the key problem, AND that and cursive handwriting. It's just the past month that that it was proven to be THE issue. Oh, another choice, take out the vowels, or substitute them! Bleary eyed, me. B -----Original Message----- From: Judi <[email protected]> To: ny-irish <[email protected]> Sent: Sat, Mar 22, 2014 12:35 pm Subject: [NY-IRISH] completely overwhelmed...in a kind of good way...but still Hi friends - I always want to turn her when I don't know what to do next. Folks here never fail to nudge me in the right direction. I have received a load of new info recently, and as it always does, it raises more questions. The big new piece of info I found was that my 2X great grandmother's parents possibly came over with her, based on her age. The earliest I have her is in the 1870 US census, married with kids. Going on that and later census info, she was born between 1833-1843, and she arrived in NY between 1850-1855. I recently got a copy of her DC and it said she was 62 when she died in Nov 1916. Since I am positive all of this is the same woman, Ann Daley Fox (husband Michael or Michel Fox) I am also positive many of these numbers are wrong. If she thought she was 33 in 1870, with 4 kids, she certainly was born in 1854, as her death cert suggests. So - knowing that, I have looked at a range of info including passenger, emigrant bank, old newspapers, and earlier census in the Fox and Daley/Daly names, and I haven't found anything I can connect to them in the US before 1870. Now that I suspect her parents probably came, too, I'm looking for them - James and Ann (Downs) Daley - in the US. Nothing anywhere suggests where in Ireland they came from. Thanks for any nudge... Judi ====NY-Irish Mailing List==== Don't forget to check out the NY-Irish mailing list website. Also, check/add your NY-Irish surnames on the Surname Registry: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/NYIrishList/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message