Thank you so very much Cara and Colette and Joyce. I can't express enough gratitude for the help I've received on this list. A lead from here to my 3rd g grandparents eventually brought me to Coolross in person where I met living relatives with whom I'm now in close contact. That event has changed so much for my family - all for the good. I'm glad I posted the birth/death of baby Arthur Byrne. It was actually in error that I put it on this list but I must say it is the only one that has generated a response. I did not know of Michael born in 1875 to Luke and Bridget and am thrilled with the information. Luke's grandfather was Michael Byrne of Coolross. I found that my "missing Luke" was visiting George and Maria Byrne on Main St. in Tinahely at the time of the 1911 census. I'm still trying to connect that couple to my family at Coolross/Clonegal but as Byrne is such a common name that might be a red herring. The name George was used in my Byrne family. I've been unable to find that couple in 1901 census. No deaths of Luke Byrne seem to match what the family maintains. He and Bridget are buried in the cemetery at Aghowle but without a gravestone. Does anyone know where to find records for that cemetery? In 1911 one of Luke's young sons, Edward, was at Coolross/Ballingate with Byrne relatives and the other, Arthur, was in Knockloe/Rath with Keoghs. I knew the family was in Leitrim at the time of the 1901 census but have no idea why they moved there from Tullow or when they came back. Family lore has Bridget Corcoran Byrne dying of grief rather than childbirth, somewhere in Wicklow or Carlow but it could well have happened in Leitrim. No death records have turned up and if the babies died before being baptised they would not be buried in the RC cemetery. Perhaps they are among the babies rumoured to be buried in a rath near the family farm. Again it could be misleading, but the fact that young Arthur was boarding with a Kehoe family has me excited. My ggg grandmother Eliza was a Kehoe. She married Arthur Byrne circa 1820 but no records are available. I've been unsuccessful in tracking the Kehoes although recently found a potential lead in Corragh near Clonegal. My family lived/lives so close to the Carlow/Wexford/Wicklow border that to this day all three counties figure in their postal address. Once again, many many thanks. Ann Burns Ottawa ON