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Good afternoon Maeve.
We have had a brief communication last year. My wife is a granddaughter of the O’Tooles who used to live in Convent Road (not Row), Wicklow. I have asked Stan O’Reilly if he knew them and he suggested I contact you. We have some information about the family but I am trying to assemble my wife’s family tree and we cannot find anyone who has any information we don't already have. The reason for asking now is that we are currently in Ireland doing a “Grand Tour” and will be coming back through Wicklow on Friday 28th June until Mon 1st July (we sail back on 3/7/19). If you are able to help us at all we would be very grateful - Stan seems to think you have most of the Wicklow families on your computer! Because we are travelling we have limited wi-fi, Facebook, Messenger and email access so we only pick up messages every 2 or 3 days. Hope to hear from you soon.
Mike & Jackie Hickmott.

Dear Maeve, Your name was actually given to us by Billy Roberts, who is the caretaker of the cemetery, as a source of local information. However, this research is something of a winter thing and we haven’t done anything more since my last post on this site.

My wife’s relatives actually lived in Convent Road (not Row) but you may still have known them! Billy gave us a lot of information about who is buried in the (2) graves in the cemetery and we have yet to fit all of this into our family tree. I can provide you with what we think we know so far if you are interested in that and you may be able to fill in a few of the blanks.

The main problem is that we know of only one living relative (an aunt over here in Eastbourne, England) who hasn’t been back to Wicklow for the last 50 odd years, although she regularly visited as a child/teenager. If there are any living relatives we would very much like to get in touch with them.

Best wishes, Mike & Jackie

Yes, that’s all I’ve found. Not sure why Anne’s daughter said her mother said she was one of 9. It doesn’t look like her father remarried as they are both on the gravestone picture previously posted.

Thanks Hallmark. I totally get the search method but what is flummoxing me is if I put in Anne Toole in Births 1900 to 1920, I get Anne Toole born on 18/11/1909. If I put in Laurence Toole under the same criteria I get Laurence Toole born on 30/8/1911. But if I put in John Toole, but not John Michael Toole, I get his birth date. How do I then access the copy of the entry in the records such as you have shown? Is there another link or is it from another site?

Also, is there a way of searching for younger siblings when I do not know their names or when they were born? Ann(e) was allegedly one of 7 children born to who I now think is Michael (O)Toole and Elizabeth Wisdom but who the other 4 siblings were, I have no idea. I have tried just putting Toole and OToole with no Christian name and a date range of 1915 to 1925 but none have the mother’s maiden name of Wisdom. Also they do not appear to be more recent than 2016 - is this the cut-off date?

Thank you for your help!

Dear all, sorry, at the moment we have no other information about her father Michael. He may have stayed in England or may have returned to Ireland - he may have left his wife and some of the 9 children there and come to England for work. Yes, her date of birth is from her death certificate, so it could well be wrong.

The aunt, from the second marriage, knew nothing of her mother’s first marriage or the fact that she had a step sister until her mother died - so that was taboo too!

I’ve just had a look: Anne’s age on her first marriage certificate in 1933 is given as 21. That would make he birth date 1912, not 1916!  Ann’s age given on the 2nd marriage certificate is 29 (in 1945) which give the birth date of 1916. Interesting indeed!