Hello everyone I have just joined this list on the offchance that someone may have some information or be able to offer me some advice about my FURLONG ancestors. My great grandmother was Catherine Agnes FURLONG, known as Kate, daughter of William FURLONG, distiller. I have no idea whereabouts in Wexford she was born or lived, but from English census information her birthdate would be c1863. In January 1880 Kate married my great grandfather, William Bernard Mulligan in Stoke Damerel, Devon. William was at that time in the Royal Navy. At the time of the 1881 census Kate was living in Plymouth with Mary Ann THOUMAINE, born c1854 in Wexford. I have since discovered that Mary Ann was Kate's elder sister who first married someone called HAMMOND and after being widowed remarried in July 1878 at the age of 24 also in Stoke Damerel. Her second husband was Alfred Augustus THOUMAINE, a baker in the Royal Navy. Although I have checked the English GRO indexes I have been unable to locate Mary Ann's first marriage so at this point I am assuming she married in Ireland, probably in Wexford. In October 1881 Kate gave birth to her first child, a daughter and my grandmother, Mary Ann MULLIGAN in Plymouth. The next two children, Alice MULLIGAN born c1884/5 and William MULLIGAN born 21 February 1886 were both born in Wexford. My great grandfather was still in the Royal Navy not being discharged to the Coastguard Service until December 1887. My late mother often told me that my grandmother Mary Ann MULLIGAN spent quite some time as a child being cared for by the nuns at the Convent of Loretto in Wexford as she had to lie flat on her back due to a spinal problem. Again, I don't have a timescale other than she was in England at the time of the 1891 census when she was 9 years old. I also know that there was a FORAN connection in the family - I am not sure whether William FURLONG, distiller, was married to a FORAN - oh how I wish I had paid more attention to what my mother said when I was young! She also told me that one of her FORAN relatives became an actor in America. If anyone can link into this family or point me in the right direction I would be most grateful. I realise that Wexford is full of FURLONGS but any help would be most appreciated as I live in England. With best wishes Catherine Carney