Attention: James Twycross Thank you for your response James and sorry for the delay in coming back to you. I have been participating in the Australian masters games - lawn bowls- no medals but some reasonable performances! I found the baptism details and Marriage records on http://ifhf.rootsireland.ie I have also stumbled on some burial information but I need to follow that up now to see the relevance to what we are researching. I have noted your information and will keep you informed of progress made. Good luck to you also re your research. Colin Whyte > > G'day Colin, > > I'm also searching for details about a Higgins family from Wicklow, my > wife's GG grandparents were Patrick Higgins and Janes Hughes from > Dunganstown, about four or five miles from the town of Wicklow. They had a > family of seven children as far as I can determine, they were Sarah, Thomas, > Mary Jane, Annie, Anthony Mark, James and Michael. In shipping documents > Patrick is described as a Farmer. I don't yet have any dates or exact > location other than the Parish of Kilbride, that seems to be their church > and a Rev. M. Moloney is listed as the R.C.Curate who would provide a > reference for the person nominated in the Sponsor records. Higgins seems to > be a name that pops up often in Wicklow but you have been lucky to establish > actual birth and marriage dates, how did you manage to find that > information. Blessington is some distance from Dunganstown, it's near the > Counties of Kildare and Dublin from what I can see in my maps. Apart from my > own research a descendant living in Perth has found numerous descendants > connected to our Higgins family all of whom seem to have migrated to NSW, > the first was Sarah arriving in Sydney in January 1873. Good luck with your > searches. >