Michelle: You might try writing to: St. Patrick's Church 130 E. 4th St. Erie, PA 16507 Immigrants to Erie were in a large part Catholic, and each ethnic group set up it's own Church (German, Irish, Italian, ...) I know St. Patrick's was the church set up by the Irish population --and was in existence at that time. Good Luck, Joyce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michelle L Slabaugh" <michelleslab@cablelynx.com> To: <PAERIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 7:26 PM Subject: [PAERIE] Erie immigrants > Does anyone know where someone living in Erie, PA would have had to gone to be naturalized in the 1860's? They were born in Ireland, but traveled to the U.S. through Canada. Searching for Johanna ALLEN b. 1859 in Canada, her mother, Catherine b. 1827 in Ireland. Do not have the father's first name. > > I would appreciate any history about Irish settlement in Erie in the 1860's and later. > > Michelle > > > ==== PAERIE Mailing List ==== > Welcome to the PA-Erie Mailing List > To leave PAERIE-L, send mail to PAERIE-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word unsubscribe in the message subject and body. To leave PAERIE-D, do the same thing with PAERIE-D-request@rootsweb.com. > Periodically, messages are received that various viruses are floating around the newslists. While no viruses have yet been transmitted via this board, all readers are strongly encouraged to keep their virus checkers up to date in order to ensure that your computer will not be impacted should this occur. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >