Hello lister I am back on the list after a long break away. My name is Joan Armstrong and I live on the Central Coast of N.S.W. Australia For years i have been searching for the birth of my great Grandfather Alexander LANDLES he stated on the 1881 census he was born in Scotland I at last have found him living in Berwick up on Tweed and he was born in 1n Alnwick in 1854 I now have his brothers and sisters all from census 1851 until 1901. Alexanders father was James LANDLES / LANDELS (a COOPER ) who was married to a Sarah Whitehead I know this by the children' birth certificates, I have checked all B D M both in Scotland and England but cannot find the marriage of James & Sarah whitehead , James was born in Dunse 1827 his mother was Helen according to the 1841 & 1851 Census she was born in Scotland. If anyone has this family I am trying to find Helen's husbands name. On the 1841 Census I found Helen mother aged 40 Jas son 15 cooper and daughter Wilhelmina aged 8 yrs born Foreign place no sign of Wilhelmina after that it. appears this family went back & forth over the Border. If anyone has Wilhelmina Or can give me information about the father of James I would be grateful. Joan