Hi, Thank you to Janice,Gerald, Eva, Sue and Margo for your replies. Thank you for your snippets of information and advice. Since I posted my original message I have managed to work out on the Sullivan Township map where concession 2 C is and as I suspected Charles probably held the freehold of the whole of concession 2 which he appears to have passed to his son John by 1880 (thanks Sue). In the 1881 Census John, wife and 2 young children are enumerated in the next household to Charles. I am almost certain that Charleston was located in 2 G/H (where a grist mill is shown on the township map), judging by the slant of the road and lake edge shown on the village plan I found somewhere on the internet. It was only a small grid iron of roads (5 x 4) and I suspect it may no longer exist. I have trawled the internet but to no avail. I believe the cemetery still exist and is described as "rear of Yonge and Escott Township". I found on the Genweb site a list of transcribed cemeteries but Charleston wasn't on it. I will certainly try the site you suggested Gerald. The info from the History of Grey and the 1851 Census (thanks Sue) shows Charles settled in Sullivan soon after he arrived in New York. I had a response to a message I placed on the Genweb mailing list which gave me the name someone else interested in Charles Critchley. However the address is dead - does anyone know an address or current e-mail address for Debra Dacosta? Thanks again for your help John Irving in Leeds UK