your wrote, no records in GRO in Dublin ****************************** in the absence of CIVIL records, If you know the parish, why not try for PARISH records, if no CIVIL records turned up. Most children were baptized, even if their birth was not registered. write to the parish clerk-Priest of the village, or town that they lived. You do not say which part of Ireland, or their names. That might help KerryKate http://www3.telus.net/KerryKate/