Hi,
I have been working a little bit on my husband's family tree, and I have Michael Cawley from Mayo, Ireland, assuming also from Sligo. He married a Mary Ellen Jackson, or a Mary first and then Ellen Jackson, that is not very clear to me. He was born in 1818 and he died in 1896 Illinois, USA. One of his sons William Cawley born 1866 in Illinois, who married Mary Ellen Andrews born 1872. I know somewhere at that point William Cawley moves to South Dakota. He married in South Dakota, so he probably died there too.
So with that being said, does that Michael Cawley sound familiar to anyone? That is as far as I go with my husband's genealogy. Funny thing is that when we planned for our honeymoon, we were in fact going to go to Sligo, because I have always dreamed about going there. It would had been very interesting to see if my husband felt like home at any point without knowing his ancestors came from there, only a few generations back.