Lorraine Conroy, timlorr@warwick.net wrote, > Searching for anyone that could be connected to our family. FORD/E > ,FLAHERTY/FLAHERTY & CONROY, all from Ireland .But where is the question.> Michael Faherty/Flaherty, wife Nora(Honor) Ford/e > Children: born Mary cc 1868 and her brother Andrew birth unknown. > Mary married a Thomas (Denis) Conroy cc 1888-90 and came to NY arriving 14 May 1890... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hello Lorraine, They came from COUNTY GALWAY. I'll bet on it, 'cause that's where the best odds are. It's clearly the ONLY county where all three names were very common in 1890. Flaherty: Principally located in counties Galway and Kerry Forde: Galway Cork Mayo and Dublin contain about two-thirds of the entries. Conroy: Nearly all in Galway, Queen's and Dublin. Check Mathison's Survey on Surname distribution in 1900. http://www.ancestryireland.com/databases/matheson/index.html Even the old original names for each of them also confirms an early history in the area of County Galway. The old Irish name, Macgiollarnath, (Ford) was from southern Connemara, which is where Galway. Ó Flaithbheartach, (O'Flaherty) was Co Galway - Lord of Moycullen and Iar-Chonnacht . Ó Conraoi, (O'Conry or Conroy) was from Co Roscommon and Galway - Uí Maine. See the Original names, Anglicized version and early County origin: http://www.fortunecity.com/bally/kilkenny/2/irenames.htm Old Irish-Gaelic Surnames I suggest you sign up for The Galway List and get on with finding these families. Please Stay with Shamrock, though, to let us know about your success. There is a Web page for the IRL-GALWAY mailing list at http://www.rootsweb.com/~irlgal/Galway.html. For questions about this list, contact the list administrator at IRL-GALWAY-admin@rootsweb.com. To join IRL-GALWAY-L, send mail to IRL-GALWAY-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word subscribe in the message subject and body. Also, Lorraine, since there were children born to this family around 1868 check the Birth Registration Index for County Galway at your local LDS Family History Center. Once you get a volume and page # from the index you can get the civil registration of their birth from the GRO in Dublin. I suggest you start around Tuam. Check FamilySearch for baptismal or marriage records of this family around Tuam. Best wishes, Tony Riordan triordan@msn.com ______________________________________________________________ THE RIORDAN FAMILY GENEALOGY PAGE: http://www.geocities.com/triordan.geo/index.html