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Thanks, Little Nell and Berlin Bob. Have no other windows open when trying to logout. Tried again this morning but no luck. Not apparently causing any other technical problems but still like to know why happening.

I am also vaguely aware that during my childhood, that we had some distant cousins with the surname Sims.

My Halpin connection appears to be from Meath rather than Wicklow, and certainly not, as far as I am aware, from such as distinguished a lineage as many of those on this thread, but a couple of co-incidences have cropped up and I was wondering if some kind person could point me in the right direction. My grandmother was Mary Ann Brennan born 1911 in Meath. I know very little about her family apart from her mother being Maggie and that she had a full sister Pauline and other unnamed brothers and a half sister Angela Halpin. I am a complete novice at Irish genealogy and have struggled to find details on Mary Anne so I thought I might be able to find her through the Halpin link. I eventually found her mother Maggie on the 1911 census listed at house 49 Betaghstown-Julianstown. The head of household is her sister Mary Anne Halpin aged 38. Maggie is also 38 and married less than one year to James Brennan aged 30, a labourer of Kings County. I then looked on IGI and found Marianne and Margaret Halpin born in 1873 to Nicholas Halpin and Mary Gynene Halpin of Meath. They seem to have a younger sister Ellemira, possibly an older brother Patrick and Mary Gynene's maiden name may have been Byrne. The family were Roman Catholics. I apologise for butting in on this thread, but the Nicholas Halpin name kept cropping up with a link to Meath, and while there seems to be no obvious connection, perhaps someone can help.