Hi, My ggrandmother was Catherine CLIFFORD, who came over from Ireland about 1858-60. Her father and brothers sent her over because conditions weren't great at home and she was supposed to go home again when things were better. From what I understand they were landowners and bankers, but don't know too much about this or where they were from in Ireland. She stayed in Brooklyn supposedly with cousins, not sure whether they were BAKER or BUTLER. Her brother's friend, William LARKIN, came over about 1859, they met and were married in 1860. They had ten children, my grandmother the eldest, Mary Frances, born in 1861. Her father died in 1877 and my ggrandmother became a detective at Abraham and Straus Dept. store. She died in 1907. Mary Francis married Michael J. O'ROURKE in 1886-7. He was born in Ireland and his mother was a MC CORMACK. He was a crane operator on the Brooklyn Bridge. They had eleven children and he died in 1915 and she died 1938.