Hello Cara My Ancestors are typical Irish starting with my Ancestor Timothy with other names of John, Patrick, Michael, Mary, Catherine being repeated in each and every of the eight generations. Cheers Jack Connors May you never Forget What is worth remembering Or remember what is Best forgotten. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cara_Links" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 5:36 AM Subject: Re: [WEX] SAILING OUT OF WEXFORD -Connors > Jack > Do your family members have Christian names > > Cara > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "JConnors" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:00 AM > Subject: [WEX] SAILING OUT OF WEXFORD > > >> What a great question, one that has puzzled me for many, many years. My >> ancestors also left Wexford in 1816 and it has always been the belief >> that they sailed from County Cork. (Presumably, they travelled overland >> from Wexford.) I was always left with the understanding that Passenger >> Ships did not depart from Wexford in the early 1800s, at least, this was >> the explanation for Cork departure. I suppose that does not eliminate the >> possibility that an ancestor may have left from Wexford on a fishing >> vessel owned by some merchant who were looking for skilled people such as >> Coopers in their new land.. >> >> >> Jack Connors >> May you never Forget >> What is worth remembering >> Or remember what is >> Best forgotten. >> >> >> >> >> ==== WEXFORD Mailing List ==== >> To do a search of the Wexford Archives go to >> http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl >> >> > > > > > ==== WEXFORD Mailing List ==== > To SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE send a message to: > [email protected] (if you are in mail mode i.e. receiving > the messages > individually or want them individually) > > or > [email protected] (if you are in digest mode i.e. receiving a > digest of multiple > messages or want this mode)