This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Purtell/O'Hearn/Tobin Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2FC.2ACI/1779.1 Message Board Post: I have the family tree of James "Willie" Purtell back to the O'Hearn family in 1813 and Elizabeth Tobin 1816 in the counties of Waterford and Cork in Ireland. James Purtell married Frances O'Hearn of Cascade, Wisconsin. James was the first cousin on my Mother. Joan Reck