This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BURNS/BURN, PEACOCK, DITCHBURN, GRIFFITHS, Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FlG.2ACEB/72 Message Board Post: I have Martha BURNS/BURN b. 1898 Shildon Durham. she married James Albert GRIFFITHS in Bishop Auckland 1919. Her father was John BURNS coal miner deceased on her marriage cert. I have been unsuccesful so far in locating a birth certificate for her, although I have found her with her sisters Sarah Ann and Elizabeth Jane BURN with Elizabeth DITCHBURN and her husband George PEACOCK on the 1901 census. They are listed as his step-daughters. Elizabeth Jane BURNS had an illegitamate child she named Bessy PEACOCK in 1913. George PEACOCK died 15 Oct 1916 during the war his father was John PEACOCK. George married Elizabeth in Darlington in 1898. Her father was James DITCHBURN dead at this time. They had two children John PEACOCK born 1899, he later died at war and Mary Ann PEACOCK b. 1901. If anyone has a connection or any further information please get in touch. :0)