This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oI4.2ACIB/391.1.1.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi, That would be great. I had some correspondence once with someone else with Fanad McConigley ancestry, and I did a little bit of looking into them at that time. Basically, the story amongst the Owey McGonagles is that they are descended from a tailor from the Fanad peninsula who arrived in the area by boat in about 1800, married a woman from Tory Island and settled on Owey. They had at least three daughters and a number of sons, of whom the Andrew on Griffiths was one (he lived to be 96). I am descended from another son, Seamie (James on records, of course). Nobody seems to remember what the Tailor's name was, but each of the sons should have named their eldest son for him, and Seamie's eldest son was Neil (my gt-grandfather); there was at least one other Neil of a similar age amongst the Owey McGonagles. I don't know where in Fanad the tailor chap came from, except that he was also a boatman so it must havesomewhere by the coast. My sort of guess at the moment is perhaps somewhere near Glinsk. I have details of all the Fanad McConiglys from the 1901 census, and also the McConigly deaths for the relevant registration district (Milford) up to 1900, & can email them to you if you would like. All the best, Marie