Hello All. As a new member I should be grateful for any help with a brick wall that two of us have been trying to surmount for a while. Our trees connected with my wife's ggrandparents generation. They were Elizabeth and (H)ellen BEETLESTONE of Donington in Shropshire, the daughters of Thomas BEETLESTONE of Shifnal and Martha nee NAYLOR. Acccording to Martha's wedding lines her father was Joseph, a blacksmith. Censuses on two occasions gave Martha's place of birth as Yorkshire, but more recently we have had an alternative location of near Old Stratford and Wolverton. GRO possibilities exist both in Potterspury and several areas of Yorkshire. Their place in Donington backed on to the estate of the Earl of Bradford, which we investigated with negative results, but we now propound the theory that Joseph may be connected with the railway works or with the Union Canal. There is a death in Potterspury in 1838 and a Martha born 1841. (Certs being got) The 61 Census of Donington shows Rene,59, head,m.charwoman b. Old Stratford; Elizabeth23,b.Bucks Bradle?; Martha 19 , b. Wolverton.Mary Ann 7m daughter in law b. Donington(probably illegitimate d/o Elizabeth or Martha) Investigation of the Naylor name shows that most are in Yorkshire! but we found one other family of Naylors in the Stratford area. Any reference to the name I should be grateful to receive. Jim