Cara & Peggy, Good idea! The more info out there the better the likelihood of someone else finding some new connections. According to GRO records: William Waddin born 17 Jun 1904 in Halls Lane, Arklow. Father Luke Waddin and mother Anne Waddin formerly Lynch. Luke was a labourer. Also present at the birth was Anne Kearon of Halls Lane, Arklow. (This should be Wadden but sound it out by ear and you can spell it a few ways) Luke Wadden bachelor married Anne Clancy spinster on 17 April 1901 in the chapel of Arklow in Registrars district of Rathdrum. Luke's residence is Arklow and Anne's residence is River Lane, Arklow. Father of Anne is William Clancy a fisherman and father of Luke is James Wadden of Craanford who was a labourer. (Anne is listed as having 2 different maiden names on the above entries. I think they mistakenly wrote down her mother's maiden name on William's birth cert instead of her maiden name. Her mother was Mary Lynch.) Luke Wadden born 30 April 1867 in Bridswell, Wexford. Father was James Wadden a labourer also from Bridswell and Mary Wadden nee Keravin. (Since this takes me back to Gorey in Wexford I'll have to post on that list as well. One comment I'll pass along is that I got a handwritten note from someone in the GRO saying that this record was very hard to read. They had to send to the local office and have the record read from that copy as it was in better shape. They originally thought the mother's maiden name was Kirwan but said the better copy showed it to be Keravin.) I had several Wexford birth and death certificates but I'll pass that info along on the wexford list when I get a chance. Thanks to all and enjoy the trip Peggy. Bill -----Original Message----- From: Cara_Links [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2009 11:08 PM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [IRL-WICKLOW] IRL-WICKLOW Digest, Vol 4, Issue 7 Why not tell us all who they were for? Any news is good news when it comes to the list Cheers Cara Message: 1 Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:39:22 EST From: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IRL-WICKLOW] IRL-WICKLOW Digest, GRO CERTS - BILL McCANN To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Hi Bill.... Did you get anything interesting? Write me off the list, if you'd like. Hope all is well. Leaving NY 30 March. Peggy ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [IRL-WICKLOW] IRL-WICKLOW Digest, Vol 4, Issue 7 >I just ordered a bunch of marriage and birth certs from the GRO. I faxed in >the request from New York in the US. I had them back in 7calendar days. > > Bill > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:01:22 > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: IRL-WICKLOW Digest, Vol 4, Issue 7 > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:35:30 -0500 > From: Christina Hunt <[email protected]> > Subject: [IRL-WICKLOW] question about certs > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Has anyone ordered certs from the GRO lately. I haven't done it in awhile > and as > I recall it took a long time. I am thinking of trying for a couple but > will be > going to Ireland, so I need them by the end of March. > Does anyone know how long they are running? > > Christina >