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Thank you, we do know that the Leonards were from the Tacoma, Washington, area and my grandmother had a brother Peter.  Whether or not the parents were Peter LEONARD (b. 1860, Little Chute, Outagamie County, Wisconsin) and Julia Ann GAHAGAN (b. 1868, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin), we  really can't go back any further. 
The parents owned some property around Tacoma, and were dealers in I believe Ford automobiles.  They owned a HofBrau and service station in Tacoma, but my grandmother who never wanted to be identified as a grandmother - but as Hazel - went to San Francisco to live.  Her history is somewhat in a fog, and it was not a San Francisco summer fog at that.
We are beginning our search in the Wisconsin area so that we can backtrack to Ireland, probably the Cork area.  I want to thank you for the help you have been in getting this started.

John LEONARD   married       Catherine BERRY
b. Ireland                               b. Ireland                                           |

                        had a child

                         Peter LEONARD, born 1860
                         Little Chute
                         Outagamie County
                         Wisconson

I know that this is not enough to go on, but in the unlikely event that someone has some information that they might share for this person's parents, the posting is made in the general category.  These are supposed to be my materal great grandparents and we do have some knowledge of their being in the Wisconsin area before they came to the state of Washington.  What I am attempting to find, however, is the birthplace and/or marriage of the parents of Peter Leonard.

Thank you.

The only thing that I can go on is the marriage registration. 

All of the parties are deceased (and I am the oldest surviving one), and I just would like to unravel the whole mess.

It took place on 29 July 1912, and the parties were: Michael McCarroll, at full age, and his condition was Bachelor.  His rank or profession was Merchant, and the residence at the time of the marriage was Beragh (County Tyrone), and his father was Owen McCarroll, deceased.  His father was a farmer (from Corkhill, in Tyrone).  Agnes B. Gaffigan was full age and a spinster, from San Francisco.  Her father was John Gaffigan, and he was a painter (actually, a printer - but the certificate gives it as a painter which he dabbled in).

It took place in the Catholic Church of St. Patrick Dundalk (and I have been there many times trying to get someone to give me the time of day, but to no avail).  It was signed by R. Lyons, adm.  (I take it that he was a pastor, or chief priest of the congregation, not knowing the practices of the Irish).  The witnesses were John "Gregan" (and that is NOT Gaffigan, the "g" is reversed and there is only one), and Mary Margaret Hamill.

I contacted the Bishop who assisted in getting me to the Parish by way of the internet.  I have had a response, but must wait a while for the person who has either been sick is replaced or the archivist that does the history of St. Patrick's.  I have been persistent, knowing full well that it may be a useless task - but one that I will go to my grave trying to figure it out.  In fact, it is about time to bug them some more to see how the archivist is doing.

Actually, I don't think it has anything to do with your later remarks about a specific person because there was never anything said about that church. The names of the witnesses do not ring a bell, and I really had to work about the Gaffigan because her father was John Amos Gaffigan.  Had to find out by a search, and then I found the marriage registration that my father got in 1975.  Then I asked some questions, and while Aggie had already passed on, the answers from my aunt were unsatisfactory.  (And it did not happen in the Irish Free State, as it was in 1912!  Joshing you...)

Are you telling me that I should link the different threads?

Because when I hit the underlined thing in your post it took me to the other post but did not tell me anything. 

I am asking because I truly do not know what the protocol is.