This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Russell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/oZEBAIB/3939 Message Board Post: This is probably a lost cause - I have no first names just that a Russell or two would have emigrated to the USA somewhere around this time but if any of your ancestors had a birth certificate when they emigrated then their father would have been the Station Master at Limerick Railway Station and their mother was illiterate. If you have anyone remotely like this in your family - please let me know. Their brother Thomas (my Grandfather), left Ireland for England somewhere around 1917 - 1919 and joined the Army - he fought in WWII and was lost on 1 Oct 1942 on the Lisbon Maru (sunk by USS Grouper a submarine). His son Michael Thomas Russell, his wife Pauline and their daughter Maxine all live in Johannesburg South Africa, their other daughter Lorna lives in Dartford, England and their other daughter Tina lives in Perth, Australia - we kind of move around a bit! We have very little information about Thomas' family as his son was only six when he was killed in the war - but hey, any little will help!