Thanks Mike But being a miner one never knows were they could have been living prior to the marriage. Regards Arthur South Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Simpson" <agene@optushome.com.au> To: <border@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 9:24 AM Subject: Re: [BORDER] Romanis Stuff and Rankin Hi Arthur, Your quote "... Ann's marriage to Thomas BARNES was irregular @ Paxton Toll, Shorewood, Northumberland, on 14 March 1835...." does not seem quite correct. Paxton Toll was on the border between England/Scotland due west of Berwick upon Tweed, Whereas Shoreswood was a small coal-mining village (now just farmland) to the South East of Norham about 5 miles from Paxton. As you say her father was a pitman, Shoreswood could have been where he worked? Regards, Mike Simpson Penrith, NSW, Australia http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~agene ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BORDER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message