This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McDonnell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3EC.2ACE/675 Message Board Post: Apologies for adding to the current spam problem. There seems to be no board moderator to ask to remove the last two posts.One has new, correct address, one has the message. This will have both so that someone might be able to reach me. I am mortified, as my Irish grandmother would say. Any information,however miniscule would be so much appreciated. John McDonnell and his wife Margaret Murphy (both born Ireland, immigrating from Perth, Ont, Canada) came to Montello, Marquette Co. in the early 1850s. They are buried in St. John's Cemetary. John died in Packwaukee. MCDONNELL / MURPHY children and spouses born and mostly died in Montello: Archibald MCDONNELL b. 1867 --married Hanora EGAN (from St. Paul area) James MCDONNELL b.1864 -- married May STIMPSON Catherine MCDONNELL b 1857 Charles MCDONNELL b. 1850 --married Theresa HANEY Mary Ann MCDONNELL b. 1847 --married Bernard GOREY Jr. John MCDONNELL b. 1845-- married Margaret GRIFFITH -- born Ireland Esther MCDONNELL b. ? Thomas HANEY? *************************************************** Archibald's family moved to Jamestown, NY, around 1910, and then dispersed to St. Paul MN and Seattle. Children born in Montello: Charles William MCDONNELL b. 16 Nov 1892 --married Anrine BURT Gertrude MCDONNELL b. 1896 John Patrick MCDONNELL b. 22 Aug 1899 Leo MCDONNELL b. 1903 Grace Marie MCDONNELL b. 15 Jun 1904 Florence Elizabeth MCDONNELL b. 27 Aug 1906 --married Art OVERBY Gerald MCDONNELL b. 8 Apr 1911 never married