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Thank you for letting me know and I look forward to seeing what you find.  Have you had a chance yet to talk to the Dunne from Cloonagh Beg to see if he is from the same branch of Dunne as I am?  I can send additional details on my family if that would help.  Thank you again...

Phil

Dotty,
My apologies for not replying sooner.  I was out of town for a few days at the end of last week and I am still catching up. 
1841 is the only census in which the family appears.  By the end of that year they had emigrated to the U.S. and were living in southwestern Illinois and St. Louis, Missouri.  Thomas Fox was probably born around 1785 in the Garstang/Wyresdale area.  He was a shoemaker by trade (listed on some documents as a cordwainer).  In 1811 he married Ellen Houghton at St. Helen, Garstang.  They had one daughter, Amy.  Ellen died in 1814.  Thomas Fox and Ellen Bamber were married at St. Mary & St. James, Scorton in a Catholic ceremony February 10, 1816.  Two days later they were married in the Anglican church at St. Helen, Garstang.  At least seven children were born:  John, Ann, Thomas, Robert, Mary, William, and Elizabeth.  (I just recently found out about John.  A family researcher has the Fox family bible and John is recorded born December 29, 1816.)  If any of the children were baptized C of E, it is in a parish that has not been indexed.  I do know that the family were still Catholic when they came to the U.S., as I have found many entries in the Catholic registers of Illinois and Missouri.  I have thoroughly searched the Catholic registers published by the Catholic Record Society, but can find no entries relating to this family, other than Amy's baptism at Ss. Mary & Michael in Garstang.
The reason for my interest in this family is that I am 99% certain that Ellen (Bamber) Fox was the younger sister of my 3XGreat-Grandmother Elizabeth (Bamber) Tomlinson.  This Bamber family originated in Hawthornthwaite, Over Wyresdale, then resided in Great Eccleston (where Elizabeth was married to Thomas Tomlinson in 1808), before coming to the U.S. in 1829.  I know for a fact that Elizabeth had a younger sister named Ellen.  When the widowed Elizabeth and her children came to the U.S. they settled in southwestern Illinois and in St. Louis, Missouri -- the same region the Fox family settled in 1841.  They lived in the same township and attended the same Catholic church.  I can think of no other reason the Fox family would have came to this region other than to be near close family relations.
If you need additional information feel free to ask.  I really appreciate all of the effort you have put into this on my behalf.
Best regards,
Phil Tomlinson

Thank you failte.  I have tried contacting a couple of Dunne's in the area but no one has responded.  Do you know this Dunne that you refer to enough that you would be able to ask them to contact me?

Thank you,
Phil

Thank you!

Than you again Jack.  Have the burial records for the Clonaslee/Kilmanman area been published?