I wrote to Mrs Boyland as a result of seeing her enquiry about Grants in Tipperary in the Int. Gen. Research Register. She wrote back in Sept 1991.

Her grand mother, Maria Grant (b.6 Jan 1855) emigrated to the USA (New Jersey) from Co Tipperary in 1849. She was aged 8 then and came "by herself", and is thought to have come to live with her aunt Ann Grant Ryan. Further information followed and appears under Moyaliffe Grants in main book

The family tree she knew to descend from Henry Grant and Mary Gleeson, on the chart below,

Her sister recalls their grandmother, Maria (above) telling that as a child she remembers in Ireland the family starting out for church together and their father would go to a different church because he was not catholic

A letter dated May 1996 followed after her visit to Tipperary in 1995. She had from Upperchurch registers further information on this family. She visited the old homestead at Lisheen (now owned by the Quinn family) who were very hospitable. She met Dermot Grant and his daughter Rita, who were both "blank".