It is a while since I posted my story and in the hope that since then someone has joined who might help — here it is again. My great grandfather was Michael MANLEY, born about 1831 (we know not where), married Bridget CAROLAN in Dublin in 1850, died in Dublin in 1889. We have been unable to find anything about his origins. He had two sons, Stephen George (born in Booterstown 1851, died in Oughterard 1919) and William John, my grandfather (born in Kingstown 1861, died in Woolwich, England in 1942). He also had a daughter Kate whose birth registration we cannot find, but she married Peter McCANN in Dublin in 1890. Their marriage is recorded in Westland Row church, but there is no Civil Registration and we have no idea what happened to Kate. Stephen George had three sons that survived to adulthood; Joseph Patrick (born in 1978), William (born in 1882) and John (born in 1886). We have found no record of them after the 1901 census and we think they must have emigrated. He also had a daughter Mary Bridget (born in 1890) who married James KELLY in Galway Co. in 1911. They had a number of children (Thomas, 1912; Christopher Stephen, 1913; Michael John, 1916; Joseph Francis, 1918; Patrick, 1921; Anthon y Oliver, 1923; Mary Bridget, 1927) but the trail goes cold then. We guess they emigrated from Galway at some point after that. We have joined the splendid MANLEY DNA project and that has enabled us to eliminate several possible links and to find two families with matching DNA in the USA. Unfortunately we have not been able to find the common ancestor. It seems that both families Irish ancestors emigrated in the early to mid 19th century, but they have no information to help. Does that story ring any bells with any on the list? Brian Manley Sussex, England.