This page is written for my family, my children and theirs. It is a Legacy for my relatives who care about from where we came. It is the best gift I can give to them.

{{Grandma's climbing the Family Tree.
She's going to the top.
She says she'll go to Adam and Eve
Before she has to stop.
If she gets a little tired
And has to take a break,
She might stop at the Vikings
But there's no telling yet.
It is, of course, her legacy
To all she dearly loves.
They'll sure know where they came from
When she is up above.}}

My ancestors came from County Tipperary, Ireland to Newfoundland and ultimately to New Jersey. They also came from The Channel Islands, County Westmeath, and County Down in Ireland to New Jersey. They came through Batavia, New York.

On the Newfoundland side, I have found a few long distance cousins and made some good friends. The surnames that I am researching are CORBETT, HAWCO, COSTIGAN, FUREY, KENNEDY, LACOUR, MURPHY, QUINLAN, CRAIG, HEALEY AND SULLIVAN. They all lived and do live in Chapel's Cove, Harbour Main and Holyrood in the Eastern part of Newfoundland. I travel to Newfoundland every year for the summer. Our summer home is in Holyrood

There used to be an internet site for Harbour Main and the Church at Sts. Peter and Paul where my ancestors were baptized, married and were buried from. That site is no longer available, so I have made one for your pleasure. "Click" on Sts Peter and Paul Church to see the Church which I visited while I was there.

Here are some other great sites for you to peruse about Newfoundland. "Click" on DOWNHOME MAGAZINE to visit the Newfoundland Kitchen and other great areas of this site. Drop in here for a cup of tea and see who else loves Newfoundland.




Here are some links for you to find your way while researching our favourite province.
ANLA - Home Page, The Evening Telegram Online ,
You can keep up with the news in this Newfoundland paper.

Please take a moment to "click" on this site to read a poem I wrote about our host for the Newfoundland Forum for America Online. Patrick Gushue was our host since the beginning of the NFLD chat. IMO Patrick Gushue

For your Ireland searches, try my favorite sites.

Irish Counties Ireland - Bulletin Boards - Westmeath Examiner Intro Page Local Ireland - Longford (level 1)

I wrote a letter to the Westmeath Examiner looking for SHERWOODS and WOW!! My second cousins in Westmeath read my letter and I am now in contact with them. My cousin, Ned, even sent me a picture of my great grandma, Brigid SHERWOOD, the matriarch of the family. The picture is 85 years old. She was 85 when it was taken, holding her grandson, Mick at age 2yrs. He is now deceased. Brigid lived to be 91 years old.

I was also looking for James SCOFIELD, my maternal grandfather, who was born in 1887 in Ireland. I finally found him on the Ellis Island passenger lists (August 2001) and that led me to his sister, Mary SCHOFIELD, who married Ernest GARTNER in NJ and her descendants, my newly found second cousins.


"CLICK" on The Newfoundland Grandbanks Site Find people living in Newfoundland from the 1700s.

"CLICK" on World Newfoundland Links. This site has it all!


"Click" here for A Short History of Newfoundland by Brendan..

"Click" here for a short review of Soe Longe There Comes No Women by HANDCOCK.

"Click" on My Irish Genealogy Sites, The Sherwood Family 1, The Sherwood Family 2, and The Rice Family.

And My Newfoundland Genealogy Sites, The Costigan Family, The Furey Family Records 1, The Furey Family Records 2, The Corbett Family Records, The Corbett Family, Early Sacraments of Harbour Grace, Newfoundland Pictures, Yahoo!, NFLD Trip1, Sts Peter and Paul Church, , Harbour Main, The Craig Family, , Avondale Cemetery Part 1, Avondale Cemetery Part 2, Avondale Cemetery Part 3, Old Irish Cemetery Harbour Main, Old Irish Cemetery Holyrood, The Lacour Family Records, The Kennedy Family Records 1, The Kennedy Family Records 2

Click here for The Channel Island of Jersey

Click here for History of the Island of Jersey
Click here for L'Histoire de I'ile de Jersiaise

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