My daughter, Shelly, showed me your message and told me she had replied to you. I have more information and thought I would send it to you. There are a lot of names here & if you want to keep them straight without getting confused, I suggest you write them down in a family tree format. I will start with 3 Weafer brothers, born in England between 1820 & 1835. I don't have their names. Two of the brothers moved to Canada and one moved to Ireland. The Ireland Weafer had two children, Dominic Weafer and Catherine Weafer. Dominic was born in Ireland and married Mary Shea. Dominic had 7 children. My copy is old and the names are hard to read so I'll do my best. Ellen, died at a very young age, Joseph, also died at a very young age, Thomas, who married Mary Eliz. Flaherty, John who married Mary Flaharety (my great-grandparents) George who married Bridget Fitzpatrick, Patrick who married Mary Motherway, and Catherine who married John Shea. Sinse both your wife and I are decendents of John Weafer & Mary Flaherty, I will only list their decendents. You didn't mention your wife's father's name so I don't know at this point where your tree branches off. My paper says that John was born in 1859, your records show 1866. Mary Flaherty was born in 1856 in Aran Isles - Bay Galway, Ireland. They had 6 children (my records & yours differ slightly). According to my records, Thomas died, a girl died, Dominic married Lucy Slayton (my grandparents), Joseph married Nellie (I can't read the last name), John born in 1884 married Eva Lord born in 1880, Mary born in 1891 (we called her Aunt Mayme) married John Canty born in 1880. Dominic & Lucy lived in Boston & had 3 children, Robert married Mary Orchard & had 3 children. Kathleen died at age 5, Bobby & wife Lisa had 4 children, & Mary & husband John had 1. Their second daughter was Barbara married to Roger Ploof & had 3 children. Rich & wife Diane had 2 children. Jeannie had 3 children. Danny died in his early 30's. He had 3 or 4 children. Dominic & Lucy's youngest son Richard (my father) married Lillian Payne. They moved to Owensboro, KY and had 9 children & 28 grandchildren (I'll spare you all the names). Dominic's brother Joseph & wife Nellie had one child, Mary Elizabeth. Brother John & wife Eva had 3 children: John married Catherine Hughes and had 4 children Jean, Katherine, John & Jeffrey. Edward married Mary (last name begins with a Wh) and had 3 children Edward, Chester and Ronald. Ronald married Eva (last name begins with an L) had two children, Donald & Patrick. Dominic's sister Mary Weafer (Aunt Mayme) and husband John Canty had one son John born in 1926 & died in 1945. Sorry if this is too confusing. Sinse I didn't know which family your wife decended from, I wanted to give it all to you. I have more names of more distant relatives if you are interested. Other records I have was a geneology compiled by Donald Weafer on 12/22/86. Mass. archives - South Boston Source: U.S.S. Samarra Passenger Lists 11/7/1873 - 9/1/1874 arrived Boston 4/17/1874. Among the passenger listed were Mary Wafer (notice the mispelling) age 45 and sons Patrick, age 20, Thomas, age 18, John, age 16, and Joseph age 9. Marriage record of John Wafer & Mary Flaherty. Source: Mass. Archives, South Boston. Date of marriage 9/4/1881. Wafer, John (age 22) First Marriage, born county Cork, Ireland. Parents: Dominic - Mary Shea. Joyce, Mary (Flaherty) (age 25) Second Marriage born Aran Isles, Galway Bay, Ireland. Parents Edward - Abby. Married by: Rev. John Quealy, Woburn, Mass. Naturalization: U.S. Circuit Court, Federal Archives, Waltham. John Wafer - Woburn - born County Cork, Ireland 1/25/1860 (this date is different than what both of us had) naturalized citizen age about 22 years, born on or about 1/25/1860. Arrived at Boston in District of Mass. on or about 4/10/1875 (15 yrs.). 1900 Federal Census - Bethel, Vermont Source: Fed. Archives, Waltham. Wefer (notice the new mispelling, this is getting interesting) John H., White, Jan. 1865 (?) Ireland. Mary, wife, b.d. 11/1857, John, son, b.d. 12/1885, Joseph, son b.d. 6/1889, Dominic, son, b.d. 12/1892, Mary E., daughter b.d. 6/1893. At the bottom of this page are the following corrections: Dominic's correct birthdate, 12/20/1890, Mary (Mayme) birthdate 6/24/1893. Per Rev. Daniel J. Barrett's Family Tree (my father's cousin) John H. Weafer born 1859 died 1927. Mary Flaherty born 1866 died 1925. I would love to have the obits on John & Mary but I don't have a fax. If you want anything further or want something clarified, let me know. If you know of any corrections to this information, as I said my paper is hard to read, please let me know.