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/1NE.2ACIB/153 Message Board Post: Susan-Hi. I've met so few Blackshaw family historians, I'd really like to communicate with you regarding your research of the Blackshaw line. My Blackshaws go back to Stoke-on-trent, England. In your records do you have: Joseph Blackshaw and Julia Mills married abt. 1850? They had at least 4 children. My great-grandfather was Wilfrid Washington (W.W.) Blackshaw, son of Joseph and Julia, yet I can't seem to find him anywhere. I have reference to Joseph and Julia's children, Sarah, Joseph, Sabina, and Evangelina - then I have reference to their children: Eva (married Jim Ware in Illinois), Sabina (m. Ernest Loveday of Wilkinsburg, PA), Joseph (doctor moved to California), Benjamin (the doctor's son also a doctor in CA), and Julia (married Benjamin Bayless lived in Chicago -no kids). Joseph's parents were probably Joseph and Hannah. I know Joseph was christened in Brierley Hill, Stafford, England on Jan 13, 1828. I know his sister, Sebina (or Sabina) was chirstened there as well. I know that Wilfrid's father was a Methodis minister. I also know that there were many methodists in Brierley Hill. Can you connect with this particular branch of Blackshaw's? Joseph (of Joseph and Julia) was born 1828. Joseph (of Joseph and Hannah) was born in 1793 in Stourbridge (got that from another genealogist). He and Hannah married in 1821 in Dudley. Thank you so much for ANYTHING you can give. I'm really driven to find where in the world Wilfred (Wilfrid) is. He got his American citizenship in 1870