In message <003801c53192$e3e5ed90$6401a8c0@dianacv5ox9k5f>, Diana <drobins6@rochester.rr.com> writes >In the event that you find any of your BOLTON family, particularly a John >born about 1781 or thereabouts, moved to the Hillingdon/West Drayton, >Middlesex area, I'd greatly appreciate hearing about it. I have GARDNER >folks who lived in Buckinghamshire and moved to West Drayton, one of whom >married a Bolton, but I cannot find any of John Bolton's antecedents and >wonder if he came from elsewhere. There are numerous Boltons in the bottom right hand corner of Bucks, adjacent to Hillingdon etc., Andy Bolton has done an in depth study of them and produced an article for Bucks Ancestor as well as a mini-book on the family. He could very well be a close connection -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society