This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3cDBAIB/8188.1 Message Board Post: I am also researching Robinsons in County Limerick at about this same era. It appears that there were not very many Robinsons in Limerick, based on my limited research. Also, the names John, George and William appear to be common in both families. Perhaps there is some connection. My 2-great grandfather is Thomas Benton Robinson, who married Alice Mary Moore in Limerick in Sep 1856 (married by the Rev. Pryce Peacock of the Anglican Church of Ireland). Thomas was born 21 Dec 1837, at sea, possibly near Cork. His parents were John and Ellen (Cohn/Cohan/Cowan) Robinson, according to family lore. John was supposedly a Scotsman of the clan Gunn. From 1900 US census data, John was born in Scotland and Ellen in Ireland. Also, Alice Mary's obituary stated that her husband was "the son of Bishop Robinson of Dublin." To date, I have been unable to find any Bishop Robinson who had issue, although I have found references to other Robinsons involved in the Anglican Church of Ireland, including a Thos. Robinson, Rev'd of Dublin, listed as a freeman of Limerick in 1756, among others. The youngest child of Thomas & Alice Mary, Alice Dorcas, was a devout Episcopalian. Alice Mary was born in Ireland to Martha and Unknown Moore, in Nov 1841. Alice Mary's mother was born in India, suggesting that her father was either a British soldier or civil servant. Thomas Benton and Alice Mary had one child born in Ireland, John Thomas, born March 1858. By 1860, Thomas Benton was in the United States in Wisconsin, where he enlisted in the regular US army in April 1862. He served throughout the Civil War, rising to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant by the end of the war. After the war, he made the army his career, serving throughout the western frontier in Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and Colorado. He retired, as a Captain, due to ill health in Nov 1888 and settled in Fort Morgan CO, where he died in Dec 1901. While in the US army, Thomas Benton served as a quartermaster, in charge of supplies, a "merchant" type occupation. His sons John and Howard followed this occupation - they ran a general store in the small town of San Ardo CA from the early 1900s until their deaths (John in 1941 and Howard sometime after 1930). Sometime in 1865, Alice Mary and their young son John joined him in the United States, where the rest of their children were born: George William (1866), Nellie (1868), Caldwell Middleton (1869), Howard S. (1873), Thomas H. H. (1875), and Alice Dorcas (1879). Alice was my great-grandmother. The Limerick connection and time frame alone suggest that our two Robinson families might have some common ancestor. A cousin, who has done extensive research on Captain Robinson, once found a message, posted somewhere on the internet, suggesting that our family might have had a connection to a Yorkshire Robinson family, some of whom immigrated to the US and others to Australia. I have been gathering information about any Robinson in Limerick, and many in Dublin, in hopes of someday making a connection to the family of Thomas Benton and Alice Mary (Moore) Robinson. I would be happy to share this info, if you have an interest. Nancy Young Colorado USA