What a nice welcome, thank you. My husband's grgrparents, Thomas and Mary KELLY BYRNE were married Feb 1831, Ballysax, Co Kildare, Ireland. Mary was the dau of Daniel and Sarah BYRNE KELLY. Thomas and Mary to San Francisco 1867 with 5 grown children, 2 stayed in Ireland. Some of Mary's siblings: Lucy Agnes who came to SF ca 1848, via a year in Chile, married Robert J. Tobin in Chile. Patrick, Margaret, others, no info on them. Also I had a Nancy GROSS who married James KELLEY in TX ca 1880, she was sister to my grandmother. Ellen Byrne dande@tds.net