At 11:58 PM 1/22/00 -0500, you wrote: > The only place i have a name for is Kingslow upon Hull. This is off of my >grandmother's Entry of Birth Dated 18,July,1896. There are a couple of >addreses on it. 12 Youlton street U.D. and 14 Jackson street Hull. The >mother's name Florence Gertrude Blackburn. Father Henry Edmond. witness >Martha Blackburn (the grandmother). The sub-district looks like hyton or >maybe ayton. Is any of that near Lancashire ? Hello Mark, Kingston-upon-Hull is in the East Riding of Yorkshire, where the River Hull flows into the Humber, just inland from the English Channel. Lancashire is the county to the west of Yorkshire, on the Irish Channel. Blackburns (and Edmonds) are numerous in both counties. You should be on the YORKSGEN-L list, which covers the entire county of Yorkshire. Subscribe to it the same way you did to this list, by sending the message 'subscribe' to [email protected] They're a friendly and helpful lot. Other suggestions: visit your local Family History Center and look at the 1881 census for Yorkshire. The sub-district may be Sutton. There is a Hayton sub-district in the East Riding district of Pocklington, and a Hutton Cranswick in Driffield. Ayton (Great, Little, East and West) are in the North Riding sub-districts of Scarborough and Stokesley. U.D. is probably 'under' something. I'm not as familiar with Yorks place names as I am with Lancs. The district and sub-district nams can be found on the genuki site http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/civreg/places/index.htm In fact, you should make http://www.genuki.org.uk/YKS/index.html the beginning point for all your Yorks research, as it has an amazing accumulation of info on everything having to do with Yorkshire. You can lurk on the Yorks list for a while and then ask someone to do a lookup for you on the 1881 census CD and they will likely pop up. Henry and Florence may only have been young children at that time, but their names will still show up on a surname search. Looking at the IGI, I see Henry Edmond born 6 Feb 1867 in Great Driffield, which is due north of Kingston-upon-Hull. That date would be consistent with your Henry, and the distance is not so great as to be improbable. Martha is an *extremely* common name in Yorks, and the list of Martha Blackburns that could possibly be the grandmother is too long to enumerate here. On the other hand, Florence was not common in that part of England at all, whereas it was in the south of England. I didn't see a marriage record for Henry under any of the common spellings, which only means that it hasn't made it into the IGI indexes yet. Parish records are available through the LDS and should give you additional info when you pin down exactly what districts you are looking at. Hope this helps Liz