This matter of Irish families travelling together to Canada (as well as to the U.S. and Australia) is quite fascinating to me. The family I am specifically researching it the Robert Virtue-Philina Morrison family and their eleven children who moved from the Enniskillen region in Fermanagh County, N. Ireland, to the Enniskillen region just north of Bowmanville likely in the late 1830's. I have been finding some of the same family names from where they came from in N. Ireland (although the Virtue had been Scotland first although originally French Huguenots). Names which appeared along with the Virtues were such ones as Niddery (Neddery or Nedery), Morrow, Gallagher, Hooey, Scott, Sylvester, Hall, Floody and many more. Did who villages decide to leave at the same time? Often these same families intermarried once in Canada. Have other out there run into this same situation. I wonder if they travelled together on the same ships. Leah Joys Medicine Hat, AB