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Hi edifitzpatrick & hallmark,

thank you so much for all the information you have provided, it will be really helpful in making a new start on tracing my roots. I had all but given up but this has given me a boost to renew my search.

Just to let you know, my mother's cousins were the Tolan's.

(sorry I didn't reply earlier but just getting over illness)

Yes, I have my mothers birth certificate, she was born 1/8/23 although she always told us she was born 31/7/23 and they put the baptismal date on her BC.

thank you for your help so far. I have posted 2 messages and also had a response directing me a Moyles on the 1901 census. I feel pretty certain that my great grandfather is a John Myles on the 1901 census, married to a Bridget Moyles and my grandfather Michael Myles is listed as being aged 7 on the 1901 census, address 11 Derreen, Letterbrick. There is some discrepancy with ages of John & Bridget Myles, now listed as Moyles on the 1911 census but I think its the same people. It appears my grandfather possibly worked in a different household 1911 as a servant with a family named Cleary. My grandmother Kate Barrett I tried to track down, found one on 1911 census aged 7 at 8 Derreen, Letterbrick although my mother told me she came from Lahardane it would make sense it this was the one as my grandfather Michael had quite a bit of land. The address for John Myles/Moyles on 1911 is 9 Derreen.
If these are the right ones I would guess that my grandparents married around 1920 given the ages of aunts & uncles. They had 10 surviving children - Michael(mick), Mary (my mother born 1/8/23) Bridget(Bridie), Kathleen, William(Billie), John,Peter,James(Jimmy),Margaret plus one other who is still alive and therefore not named.

Hello Diski, I am new to this and would welcome any information you can give me. Here is the information I already have:-
My mother - Mary Moyles DOB 01/08/1923, she had 9 brothers & sisters.
Her father Michael Moyles, her mother Kate Moyles (nee Barrett, originally from Lahardane) They lived on a farm in Derreen but Boughadoon was found on some letters after my mothers death.
Townland - Derreen, Parish - Crossmolina.
I would like to know my grandparents DOB's, Marriage, date of death. Any info on my grandparents brothers/sisters/parents, in fact anything would be good.