Hi, Chris - Did you mean you found your people on the 1911 England/Wales census at http://www.1911census.co.uk:80/ If so, sometimes a place of birth can be ascertained on the advanced search feature by typing in a particular county rather than simply Ireland. I tried a Full Person search using only the surname PIERS on the 1911 England census. (I tried typing Westmeath for "place of birth"- nothing returned. Then I tried meath and this entry came back - BTW, the M stands for male, not a middle initial. HOUSEHOLD PIERS HUBERT M 1868 43 St Pancras London There was also an elderly Piers female on that 1911 English census (living elsewhere) who stated she was born in "Ireland." If you think she is one of "yours," based on where she was living, you could go through all the Irish counties and see if a particular one is recorded. Google Search: If you do an advanced Google search for phrase William Stapleton PIERS you will get FOUR "hits." *** One sounded promising: There is an extensive PIERS family tree taken (in part?) from "The Annals of Westmeath Ancient and Modern,"by James Woods, and that sounds even more promising!*** http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:k_w_8JpDEawJ:piersfamilytree.wikispaces.com/file/view/piers%2Bfamily%2Btree.ppt+%22William+Stapleton+Piers%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=usThree other hits include a death notice in the 1864 issue of "TheGentleman's Magazine," pub. England - i.e., "Nov 25: At Dinan, in Brittany,William Stapleton Piers, esq., second son of the late Sir John Benot Piers."(My comment, Benoit surname is a variation, too, so keep that in mind, butif your family were from the aristocracy and/or a landed family, it shouldbe well documented in the literature in your genealogy library. Perhaps theactual year of death was 1863?Of course, there might be several related (and unrelated) individuals withthese names.Have you tried "googling" Hubert Piers? There is a "little-known"illustrator with that name:http://dl.lib.brown.edu:8081/exist/mjp/plookup.xq?id=PiersHubertPer the surname search engine at www.ireland.com/ancestor/there were only two PIERS households in Irela! nd during the PrimaryValuation - one in Dublin county and a second in Dublin city. You can findout specifics at the website for a small fee.The 1911 Census of Ireland is being digitized to search free at the NationalArchives (Ireland) website. So far, there are only a few counties available(Antrim, Down, Dublin, Kerry) but work is ongoing. There were six PIERSindividuals listed as living in Dublin.http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/Jean----- Original Message -----From: "chris giles" <chrisgiles46@hotmail.com>To: <IRELAND@rootsweb.com>Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 10:32 AMSubject: [IRELAND] Surname Piers living in Mullingar, Westmeath>I have just found in the 1911 census a gentleman ancestor with the nameHubert Piers born Mullingar, Ireland. At the time of the census he age isgiven as 43. On his marriage certificate in 1897 his fathers name is WilliamStapleton Piers occupation Gentleman deceased. I wonder is there anyone whocan help me find any records or more! infomation of these two people inIreland either birth/ baptism, marri a ge or death, land or anything else thatmay help me or perhaps any relatives they may have.> Regards> Chris