Thanks to the persons who answered my original query. As I am a pensioner and the Aussie dollar is only worth 52c expensive lookups are not a viable option for me. I was hoping that maybe there would be some data available on the net which I could use. Briefly: My mother Beatrice Victoria Emblen went to Boston before WW1. Apparently she was too young to marry (she was born 1897) and I suspect she put her age up a year to marry an O'Shea who was dying of TB. She had a son ,John O'Shea and after her husband died returned to GB on the Mauritania, I believe. Her Uncle (an Emblen perhaps) had a practice in Virginia Plain? Any help as to how I could get some info on these matters would be much appreciated. Pat Garland. Perth Aust.