Does any body researching descend from thomas O'Connell b. 1811 Ireland . To America by 1840 lived in Springfield ,Hampton co MA in 1850 and 1860 . Wife Catherine b. 1815, Her mother may have been Nancy O'Brien living with them in 1860 90 years old. Children: Ellen, Nancy Wm, Mary, Maurice, Jeremiah, Cath, Daniel, Margaret. Talma Klaassen