This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burns, Downing Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/1VB.2ACE/11704 Message Board Post: I am looking for any relatives of Patrick and Rose M. Burns and their children, who lived in the Kelly's Island area of Erie Co., Ohio. They are listed in the 1860 and 1870 censuses. Patrick and Rose were both born in Ireland, Patrick about 1819, Rose about 1824. The children were Mary J (could be MaryJane) or Jane, born about 1850 in Connecticut, Daniel, born about 1851 in Connecticut, Eliza (could be Elizabeth), born about 1854 in Ohio, John, born about 1857 in Ohio, and Ellen, born about 1860, she was 8 months old, in Ohio. There is a chance that Patrick and Rose could be my gggrandparents and the their daughter, Eliza, may be my ggrandmother, Elizabeth Burns Burke, who was married to my ggrandfather, Thomas Burke from Ireland. They lived in Stamford, Connecticut. One of their daughters', Margaret Burke Downing, was my grandmother. She was married to my grandfather, John J. Downing. They lived in Stamford, Connecticut also. I believe that Daniel may be the same one I found in the 1900 census of Portland Township, Sandusky City, Ohio. His children were Ida B., Sidney, and Margaret(?), all born in Ohio. It does not list a wife, so he may have been a widower. If anyone has any information or is a relative, please do not hesitate to leave a message here. Thanks, Judy Downing