G'day...I am trying to assist my daughter who wants to map our family tree and I am finding it very difficult to give her any worthwhile information. Would appreciate any assistance. My mother (Eileen Philomena CAROLAN) was born in Westport, Mayo on 6th June, either 1926 or 1929. She had a brother known as PJ who was murdered, probably in London (I suspect between 1935 and 1960). Her father was Thomas CAROLAN (he served in the British Armed forces in WW1) and he married Helena JONES (I suspect originally from Sligo). I do not know where they were married. My mother spent some of her early teen years in a boarding school in England. I suspect that Thomas CAROLAN would have been born between 1885 and 1908 and Helena Jones between 1887 and 1910. I have found listing in English war records and 1901 census but have no way of tying them conclusively with my family. Seems that there is a real gap for online information in the 1920's onwards and I think I need to find records around that timeframe to link my family to any of the records I have found (war and census). I was hoping for either a record that showed Thomas CAROLAN and Helena JONES marrying, which would have been between 1918 and 1929 or a newspaper clipping giving any details of PJ CAROLAN'S murder or a later family record of the CAROLAN'S showing my mother Eileen as one of the children or any other record I haven't thought about. My mother eventually married BRENDAN JOSEPH LYNCH (from Dublin) in Coventry in England around 1950 (I can't find record of that either) and in 1951 my sister Brenda was born in Dublin, followed in 1953 by myself in Sligo. In 1959 my family immigrated to Australia on the fairsky from Southampton and I have found the ship's passenger list that shows my mum's birth as 1929 but I am not sure if that is accurate as I found a copy of a birth certificate obtained in 1947 which has the year smudged and it could either be 1926 or 1929. My father Brendan was born in 1925 (he had an older brother , Dermot who was born in 1920 and died in 1928). He was in the Irish Army at the beginning of World War 2 and then joined the British Air force. His mother was Ellen ( I don't know her maiden name) and his father was Christopher LYNCH, who was in World War one and who died in 1927 (He had a sister known as Bonnie). I found the record of the grave that he and my uncle Dermot were buried in, in Glasnevin, Dublin. Christopher married Sarah Kelly, who was the daughter of a Harbour Master. When Christopher (known as Christie) died, Sarah married William Magee (around 1930). William had 3 children, Hugh, Billy and Mary. Mary married Danny KINEHAN and they had 2 children, Christopher and Sally-Anne. I suspect that Sally-Anne may be a current member of parliament or have a reasonably high profile position in a government department. Beyond that I know very little. If anyone can shed any light on this it would be appreciated. Thank you for taking the time to read this. Cheers Dermot
