Re: ROWAN; IRL; 1840-1850 Brian R. Donnelly (brian@hicom.net) wrote: : ROWAN; IRL; 1840-1850 : My wife's ancestor Alexander BURKE/BOURKE/BURK/BERK and his brother Thomas : were born in Newtowncashel, Co. Longford, Ireland in the early 1840's. : Emigrated to Coalton, Randolph County, VA/WV before 1860's. : Their father's name was also Alexander. Mother was probably Mary or Margaret : ROWAN. See: http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/Geneal/Longford.htm Longford Family Heritage Centre computerizing parish records Provides search service for a fee http://longford.local.ie/genealogy/ County Longford Museum and Heritage Centre http://www.bess.tcd.ie/roots/prototyp/longford.html Longford sources for genealogy http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/tmoffatt/longford.html The Longford Collector http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/4658/Roan.01.html Ruadhan Genealogy; Ruane, Roan, Rohan, Rowan, Roughan http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~touchwud/gen/burke.htm Burke Roots These, and other useful links, can be reached from the TIARA web site. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | The Irish Ancestral Research Association Acton, Massachusetts | Dept. W, P.O. Box 619, Sudbury, MA 01776 ahern@world.std.com | http://world.std.com/~ahern/TIARA.html - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -