At 02:29 21/01/2007, you wrote: >Hello, >After many years of research I may have stumbled >on a potential lead for my Aspel/Kinsella >ancestors. I was always told they were from >Dublin but have not found any positive proof >that they were from Dublin They could have been >from somewhere else in Ireland and just left from Dublin. >Could someone tell me if the Rathcoole District, >(Celbridge Union) is in Dublin? >I have a letter dated 1913 to my grandmother >from a Mary Archbold who lived at 60 Brookfield >Bds, Brookfield Avenue, Blackrock. The stamp has >been removed along with the postmark so I'm not even sure it is from Ireland. Well now there are about three questions / possibilities here! Rathcoole is in the County of Dublin however the 'Poor Law Union' of Celbridge is centered on North East Kildare. I have to say that I am a little surprised to hear that Rathcoole is in the PLU of Celbridge, but as we all know, we learn something new every day. Brookfield Buildings, Brookfield Avenue was indeed a Dublin address, unfortunately the directory for the years around that time list then as 76 small houses with rateable valuations between £3 and £9 so individual occupants would not be listed. They should however, show up on the 1911 census which is available from your local / nearest LDS (Mormon) Centre. There is a cluster of the Aspel and Kinsella names in Kildare and Carlow regions so checking with folk on these lists may elicit something Regards Anthony J. Roche Visit my home page at http://homepages.iol.ie/~ajroche/ Good Dublin Links at http://www.rootsweb.com/~irldubli/