This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: Ann_rennison1 Surnames: Beckwith Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.beckwith/1288.2.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hello, I'd love to help but have no contact with the one cousin who's DNA might have been useful, I've no idea where he is. As far as my tree is concerned, this was researched long ago and is paper based (very fragile by now from having been folded and unfolded so many times) and the sources of information aren't listed. I do know that lots of the information came from the Archbishops of Durham and York Cathedrals. The only book I can see mentioned is "General Beckwith, his Life and Labours among the Waldenses of Piedmont" by J P Meille, pastor of the Waldensian church at Turin, 1873. This is of course 2 centuries after Marmaduke. I will get round to inputting all this on the Ancestry site but at the moment I'm trying to bridge the gap between what my mum has been able to tell me (and the Certificates she gave me) and a William Beckwith born in 1795. The line seems to stop with him but as I've discovered, even when a male is shown as "died unmarried" it doesn't mean the! re are no issue. The William I'm looking at had at least 2 and possibly 3 children with a woman before he married an heiress! My mum is 83 and the last of her siblings so for her sake I'd love to solve this. What makes it even more of a task is that it seems every first male child was named William - a nice tradition for them but confusing for me. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.