Thank you :-)

Of course I cannot be 100% certain that Francis is my Great-Granny's brother. However, going by the naming pattern - that is, John was named after their father, William was named after one grandfather, and Francis would have been named after the other grandfather - and the facts that, according to his army papers, Francis was born in Killererin, the same town as William five years later, and his next of kin was his father John, I feel that 99.99% certainty is good enough. Oh, also, McCusker is such a very unusual name in Galway, too.

I am still smiling very much :-)

Of course now I want to know even more about him!