Dear Rose, Your first place to look should be the 1901 Census of Co. Wexford. In the LDS Family History Library Catalogue do a Place search for Ballycanew - on familysearch.org and see if there are any films you can view at your nearest LDS Family History Centre. From the 1901 census you should be able to find her father with that occupation and the family with him, hopefully. The census will give you an approximate birth year and a birth place. With that info your searching may be more successful. Aileen ============= Mary Ann CONNOR b c 1888 Ballycanew area, d/o William CONNOR, Undertaker. mothers name not known but might have been O'RIODEN. My grandmother died when my father was only nine years old. My dad could recall was that she came from Ballycanew in Wexford. She m in Birmingham 1920 Frederick RUSSELL. Not been able to find her birth regn. after searching for Mary Ann/Mary CONNOR born within a few years of that date - wonder whether birth was registered at all. I must look for a baptism entry. She was Roman Catholic - where I will find the registers for Ballycanew and surrounding parishes c 1880s? Rose