Folks, you have been so helpful in the past I want to ask your help again, but also give you an update.
The update is that I found the information for the lad in Artane. The trouble was that, when his birth was registered (by Rose Farrell - who ran the nursing home in which he was born) both mother and father's names were given incorrectly. The father's surname was correct, and the mother's Christian name (a helpful "Mary")!
So armed with the date of her death, which we had known, I went to Glasnevin cemetery records. It turns out that both parents were buried there, in separate graves. There is a very helpful genealogist there, Lynn Baker. Very quickly, with her help, the whole tree began to appear, on both sides of the boy's family.
It now remains for me to find out on which side of his tree we are connected. To that end, could you tell me of any marriage record for Catherine Crosdell and James Kennedy? The good thing about Crosdell is that there aren't too many of them around. The bad thing is that there are so many variations of the name.
Many thanks
Gerry
