I know that my ancestors came to Liverpool as 'navies' who laboured and built working class housing. Some of them went to Canada to find a better life while some stayed and worked in the coal pits and mills of Lancashire. McGarr's have lived and worked in Leigh, Lancashire to this day. My great grandad, Thomas McGarr, died in an explosion in a Leigh coal mine. If you are a Lancastrian McGarr, send me an E mail.