This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CGC.2ACI/410.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: There might be a connection here but I would not know what at this point. Names are usually passed down through generations and I have a lot of Frances/Francis' in my McCormick family. My ggf John McCormick was born in Ireland 1832 to Peter and Margaret McCormick. We had many cousins that lived in the Oshkosh area. Who knows maybe my Peter and your Frances are related. Do you know where your McCormick's were from in Ireland?