Greetings, I am sending this email at Janet's request for a roll-call. This is my first posting to this mailing list, although I have been a member for a few months. I am looking for information on an O'Connor family that may have resided in Waterford City in the 1840's approximately. Thomas and Ann O'Connor are my gg-gradparents. According to information I have, they ran a bakery. They had two children: one boy, Martin, and a girl Bridget(?). There is a family story that the O'Connors actually originated in County Roscommon and moved to Waterford. I have not been able to confirm that story. Martin is my great-grandfather. He was born on 11 Nov 1841 in Waterford. He emigrated from Ireland about 1858 (according to the 1900 US Federal Census) and entered the US probably in Norfolk, Virginia. According to a family story, he served for one year with the Confederate Army during or just before the Civil War. I have a copy of the Loyalty Oath signed by him in 1864 in Norfolk pledging loyalty to the Union. The next documentation I have is his naturalization certificate issued in Westchester County, NY (outside New York City) in 1868. He then joined the U.S. Army at West Point, New York in December 1872. He remained a soldier stationed at West Point until his retirement in 1903. He had one deployment during his career of which I am aware: to Cuba during the Spanish American War in 1898. According to certificates filled out after his death, His widow, Catherine Elizabeth (Farrell) O'Connor, stated that he had had a sister he left in Ireland and never heard from again and her name may have been Bridget. Another family story states that she became a nun (nfi). I have no further information regarding Bridget(?). I do not know what caused Martin to leave Ireland, but surmise it may have been a traumatic family event, perhaps the deaths of his parents. Unfortunately, I have no information to confirm or deny that guess. I would appreciate any information anyone may have on this O'Connor family. Bob Gallagher Surprise, AZ USA Bobgallagher@cox.net

I am looking for a Patrick Moran who may have married a Mary or a Jane sometime in 1830 who had a son James (born 1835-37 in Ireland) (who married an Alice Lamb born 1840 in Ireland) whose father was James Lamb...some of family folklore says they were from the Waterford.wexford counties. But I am pretty sure that the folklore speaks of the May family Robert May born 1839 (son of Timothy May born 1813) who married Susanah Christina Lawlor (daughter of Jerimiah Lawlor from Dublin)...but like to watch the site just in case I am wrong.