In a message dated 2/9/2006 6:03:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > 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 My Connor family supposedly came from Macroom, County Cork. Any chance your Connors were originally from Cork. I don't know when they came but it would have been in the early 1800's and they ended up in Maine. My Wexford family (Dooley's and O'Brien's) came in the late 1800 and they did come from London. Lynn