This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burn, Holdway Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5538/FlG.2ACEB/61.1.2.2.1.1 Message Board Post: I have 'lost' a SAMUEL HOLDWAY (born Cople, Bedfordshire, baptism 1809, a son of Samuel Oldway/Holdways/Holdway probably of his first marriage to Ann Last - Samuel the father died 1852). The missing Samuel jnr was convicted at Beds Quarter Sessions 1824 of 'poaching with snares' - sentencing records not available - so far no trace of his marriage or death in UK - I suppose he may have died before 1837 or been transported - but I believe all coincidences are worth checking and wonder if any of the people who are folowing Burn/Burns in the Whitby area know of the origins of the HOLDWAY bit of the names you are mentioning - if they gave the same name to two children, it was may have been significant for their family. I know there were Holdways in Yorkshire, but have never come upon a Samuel.