Christiana That would be very possible there may be a completely separate family with similar phonics that orginated in Ireland. Since me Sloans that were in Ireland were not Catolic then I suspect they were from Scotland. Also there were a number of people that settled from England during the middle ages trying to rule and conquer Ireland. If the Sloans were Lowland Scots then they could have had family influence and settled also Scots and Welsh were used for Language purposes anyway be the Engish. Betty >Just wanted to follow up and let you all know that there were SLOAN families >in Ireland before the SCOTS showed up... :) >Christiana > >> >