This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/HO.2ADEB/217.231.245.1 Message Board Post: Don, Sorry, I can't help. My closest Ainsworth relative born in England was born in 1652. I haven't gone back any further than that. ( I am assuming that "Newton-lw-Willows Lancashire" is in England.) John Ainsworth