I'm trying to find an ancestor (Richard Short) who probably was born in Tipperary around 1820 and immigrated to the United States around 1840, joining the US Army in 1842 and died in Panama in 1852. I've found some Shorts listed in Griffith Index for that county but don't know if they're related. There don't seem to be any marriages, births or witnesses/sponsors listed with the names of Short for Tipperary. His wife, Hannah Coffey, might have been from the same county, maybe not.