Charles,
Do you know when your Garr Cranney was born? You see, I'm missing a great-grandfather. I found reference to my g-grandfather LUKE G. CRANNEY living in Albany in 1906/1907 but he then abandoned his family of a wife and nine children. My grandfather was sent to St. Vincent's Orphanage in Albany, NY along with the other boys in his family. I have not been able to find one single thing on LUKE G. CRANNEY since then, not even his death. My Luke Cranney was born in Albany, NY December 1870, three months after his parents arrived here from Ireland. He would have been around 36-37 when he left. The odd thing is -his middle name was Garr so I'm wondering if maybe he started going by his middle name instead of using his first name, thinking no one could track him down. I'm probably all wrong but I'm grasping at straws now.
Thanks
Regina Cranney