On our second day in Ireland, before we went to the Doherty reunion we had stopped in Ballinimore, one of the larger towns in Leitrim and the home of the Leitrim Genealogy Center the picture on the left where we met Brit Sullivan on the right. Brit had done a search on the names John Doherty and Elizabeth Wynne and she had come up with that they had both been alive in 1901 according to the Leitrim census of that year and that they had a daughter Anne and that Anne had married Peter Gaukian, and that they lived in the Catholic Parish of Bellinaglera for me Gaukian was a new name in the mix. Brit sent us on our way to Bellinaglera which for my Irish friends is about 5 miles north of Drumshambo.

and there as we came into town on a hill to our right there sat St. Hugh's. It's the church where John Doherty and Elizabeth Wynne my great-great grandparents were married in 1845, and also where my great-grandparents and aunts were baptized. We then started looking in the cemetery, but the gravestones in that cemetery were too new, many in the 2000 and more present than that, so we were lost, had no idea what to do next, but we knew there had to be another cemetery someplace. Luckily as things happened in Ireland for us a young girl was walking down the road with a cell-phone in her ear and thank heaven she knew something. She told us there was another cemetery not too far from here and so we found that one. It was Fahy Cemetery on the next page I will have a map to show you exactly where the cemetery was there Deb found my great aunt Anne and her loving husband Peter Guckian buried. If you look at the picture on the right bottom you will see Loch Allen in the background. We knew we had something for when we found the gravesite it had flowers on it and we could tell that someone nearby had been taking care of the site, so we felt good about that.