Thanks Faith, I appreciate your posting this information. It helps us all when we can get a mental picture of where these ancestors were located. Just wish we could pin down where Thomas and Rose were from.. Thanks, Sue Faith Butticci wrote: > > Earlier I was looking for Hopton, Sal, Eng. > > I contacted the Midmarch List in England to see if someone could help > me out. Got a variety of answers (including looking in other counties > ............) but today I got a lead that sounds hopeful. > > It would appear that there was a Hopton that was in North West > Shropshire, about 7 miles south west of Market Drayton, between Hodnet > and Shawbury. Comes under the parish of Hodnet. > > Thought I would pass this along. I think this may be where the > elusive Thomas was from. I will check the records for Hodnet and > area. Most of my family is in this area and may find a connection. > > Faith Butticci > Kelowna, B.C. Canada > > ==== ASHBY Mailing List ==== > To search for surnames, previously posted on this list > Please, click on the URL below. Then follow instructions. > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/