>I followed your explanation of the 2% extracts, but there doesn't appear to >be one for Ayton. > >Does anyone have access to the 1851 Census? > If you have a LDS family history centre near you, you can ask them to get the films for you, and look yourself. There isn't a full index for the 1851 - and what there is is ruled by Murphy's Law (there's only 2 census books for the village of Whitsome - they did the one I don't need! Lesley Robertson