I visited my parents last weekend and my aunt dropped in. As you do we got around to talking about the family tree and I heard an interesting story about the last in the line of Walter Blaxalls. He was born Walter Thomas Blaxall in 1887 and died just before his first child, my maternal grandmother, was born in 1908. His death certificate, which I have somewhere but haven't been able to find yet, gave the cause of death as tuberculosis. However my aunt told me that he worked on the railways and he was black-legged. I asked what that means, never having heard the term before, and she said that in those days if there was a strike and a worker went against the strike they were lynched by their co-workers! So my great grandfather was murdered about a month before his daughter was born. My mum was as surprised as I was, as she had never heard that story either. My grandparents lived with my aunt for many years when my grandfather retired. So, although she was the youngest of 5 children she probably knows more stories than the rest of the family put together. I now wonder if there were newspaper reports about this, either the strike or his death. It looks like I have further research to do. Karen