This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/FdF.2ACEB/169.171.183.238.1.1.1 Message Board Post: hi there my name is caroline i am researching our family history. bratton is a really english name but there seem to be more american brattons the english ones my family also come from leeds and there are not many of them i wander if we have any connection my dad is ernest and his dad was thomas his mum was jane and they had a daughter called elizabeth, a son called robert and so on it is possible that you were cousins to my grandads family