Denise I'm not sure if this is relevant, I've been keeping the sketchiest watch on the list in recent months as work has devoured most of my time and can't find your theory... but the three eldest O'Donnell boys including my g grandfather were sent back to Ireland to school; not to a school anywhere near where Michael and Margaret were from (around Limerick) but Dublin to a then v. new public school which today churns out a large proportion of Ireland's Rugby players. It doesn't seem to have been a case of sending back to the family so much as sending them back specifically for the education on offer. As far as I can make out their return coincided with Margaret becoming unwell... Robert was certainly a pupil at Beechworth Grammar after they returned. Leslie-Ann >I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has discovered that a >child/children of a family >was either left behind in the homeland or sent >there/back perhaps. >I would be keen to see a discussion on this if any of you have found this - >I would like to hear some other reasons why this would happen. Denise _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself with cool new emoticons http://www.msn.co.uk/specials/myemo