This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kilbey-Paxton-Powell Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YZ5.2ACIB/1059 Message Board Post: HI Looking for the connection. Kilbey cousins married. below is the the obituary for maria it states she is a grand niece to Sir Paxton. Also we have an Elizabeth Powell Kilbey, so thinking the connection is close.... KILBEY - May 29, at the Four Courts Hotel, Inns quay, Annie Maria the dearly-loved wife of Henry G. Kilbey, managing director, Four Courts Hotel Co., Ltd., and grand niece of the late Sir Joseph Paxton, aged 46 years, to the inexpressible grief of her sorrowing husband and children. Funeral will leave for Mount Jerome Cemetery this (Tuesday) morning at 10 o’clock. [31 May 1904, Irish Times, page 1 column A] She wasBorn in England died in Dublin Ireland. Grand niece of: Sir Joseph Paxton (1801-1865) is presumably the celebrated English architect and gardener. The Dictionary of National Biography gives few genealogical details but does state that his wife was Sarah Brown and he had a brother, John, also a gardener. Can anyone help? Thanks claiedotson@wi.rr.com