Hello. I have just found an IGI marriage entry which has me quite excited, and I'm wondering if SKS on the list would help me by looking up the 1851 census index. I'm looking, specifically, for William ROOKS, his wife and their family. If this IGI marriage relates to my William ROOKS, then he married Jean MURRAY on 31 December, 1849 in Balmaghie, Kirkcudbright. William ROOKS' wife and child may have died before the 1851 census, but he was alive at that time. William is surrounded by mystery. I don't actually know the name of his first wife (I'm hoping it was Jean MURRAY) but I have clear evidence that he had a child before he married his second wife, Euphemia STEWART. By the way, if anyone knows where Euphemia STEWART and her brother, Duncan STEWART, were in the 1851 census, I think I'd weep for joy. I have seen the 1861 census which shows William and Euphemia in Bonhill, Dumbartonshire. I've also seen the 1881 census which shows them in Sunderland, Co. Durham, along with Duncan STEWART. The census entries, Euphemia's death registration and the birth registrations of her children all give different relative ages for Euphemia, and some of the documents indicate that she and William were married in Newcastle - again, with varying dates. A search of the St. Catherine's index has not turned up a marriage. The following is what I know: -Duncan STEWART, a shoe maker (b. abt 1824 in Scotland) - brother of Euphemia STEWART. -William Dickenson ROOKS (b. abt 1831 in Norton by Malton, Yorkshire) -William married Jean MURRAY in 1849 (I HOPE) and they had one child who, I believe, died early. -William then married Euphemia STEWART (b. 1833-1837? in Glasgow, Lanarkshire; d. 1886 in Sunderland, Durham) -William and Euphemia had the following children: Robert (b. 1855 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire) Ann (b. 1857 in Hamilton, Lanarkshire) Alexander (b. 1860 in Bonhill, Dumbartonshire) Sarah (b. 1862 in Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire) Francis (b. 1868 in Sunderland, Co. Durham) William (b. 1870 in Sunderland, Co. Durham) I'm hoping very much that someone will be willing and able to discover these people in 1851. Thank you. Vivienne Toronto, Canada