This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: O'Rork, Keating, McCartney Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1VB.2ACE/11430.1.2.1 Message Board Post: As far as I know, no one had found anything that would confirm when the O'Rorks arrived in the US. Frank O'Rork (son of Mary McGee and Matthew) provides a variety of dates in his Civil War pension papers, 1840 and 1842 being the most common. I recently confirmed that Frank's older brother Thomas was living in Cincinnati in 1921. I want to try to track him down to see if I can find anything there. The story is that Matthew O'Rork died on board the ship and was buried at sea. Mary either met Bernard Keating on the ship or, there is speculation that they came from the same town in Ireland. In any case they married and had their first child, Mary, by 1852 and can be found in the 1860 Ohio census for Erie county. Bernard died before 1870. I have not been able to locate either Bernard or Mary in any records before 1860 but Frank's pension papers indicate that the family was living near Sandusky Ohio by the time he was 5. I talked to a professional genealogist who specializes in Ireland and was told that unless we at least knew the county in Ireland, preferrably the parish, it would be next to impossible to find the family there. Are you also researching McCartney? That family is connected to the O'Rorks in several generations. How are you connected? Keep in touch Ann