GGrandfather James Roche born appro 1840 Whitegate, parish Aghada, Cork. Was in R.N. Married Ellen Fleming 1865, Aghada. Two known children, Margaret my grandmother 1867, her sister Mary Ann born Cobh 1869. Margaret's wedding cert from 1894 says her father deceased. A family story says James Roche left his family in Cobh immigrated to America and started a new family, perhaps soon after 1869. He may have used the first name Thomas. Don't know when he left R.N, when or where he died. No other record of him so far. Does this sound familar to anybody?