I know the only thing worse than someone who just got religion is someone who just got geneology..but Cornelius Lyons is my great-great-great grandfather's name..father of Margaret who married my ggf Timothy Garvey. Anyway, her mother's name is not known and I wanted to find it out so I googled Cornelius Lyons and find out her is a famous Irish harper, friend I guess of O'Carolin...does anyone know any more?

I do not know where the Lyons family is from...they ended up in Iowa after the famine sometime....but they could have been from County Kerry as that is where other family is from apparently and sometimes communities surely must have traveled in groups or gone to where they knew neighbors etc.

So anyone know about CL and if he had any descendents named Cornelius in the early 1800s...mg