Hi Kelly, In the 1900 US Census, did you see his date of birth? General rule of genealogy> work from what you know backwards, >From death, back. The US 1880 census is a good one to search for accuracy. With my tribes, the longer they were in NYC, the more likely the year of arrival was wrong. Also, all of my ancestors, who had Emigrant Bank acts in the "tests" section, proved to give the correct arriving ships and dates. If you re-view the utube videos of Rosie O'Donnell's ancestor, that I posted last week, it will give you tis about Irish emigrating to Canada. Hope this helps you, Barb From: Kelly [email protected] So ..where was Luke Gray ( b 1854 "Ireland" - d 1911 NY NY) before he pops up married in the 1900 and 1910 Census?? "Immigrated 1865" ??? to the US? to Canada? he would have been only 11 years old - did he immigrate alone? Was he indentured somewhere? Kelly