From: Tracy Rishton <tracy@rishton.info> > I am looking for information about an ancestor of mine Henry Hope from > Cheshire, probably Wilmslow or close area. He was marrid to Betty and > they had at least one son, William Hope baptised June 8th 1777, buried > 22 November 1854 in Wilmslow. I would be grateful for any information > about Henry, Betty or any of Williams siblings. William married Anne > born 1779. > > Many Thanks > > Tracy Rishton> With respect, this kind of query is not phrased terribly helpfully. Why don't you state more precisely what you want to know and what you already do know, otherwise people may waste their time giving you information you already have? Have you looked at FamilySearch, for instance, or Ancestry and Findmypast, all of which have parish records for Cheshire? The contributed IGI at FamilySearch has a marriage on 24 Oct 1773 at Cheadle (which isn't far from Wilmslow) for Henry Hope and Elizabeth Hamlington (Betty was usually a diminutive for Elizabeth). Could this have been them? The same marriage appears at Findmypast, extracted from the Bishop's Transcripts The indexd IGI has an entry for James Hope, baptised 5 July 1789 at Wilmslow, father Henry, mother Betty, but no William that I can see (and I looked for the mother as both Betty and Elizabeth). However, FMP has the baptism at Wilmslow on 8 June 1777, as you say, father Henry, mother Elizabeth, again from the BTs, also the baptism for James in 1789. It looks as if William had just the one sibling James, unless there were others baptised elsewhere. If you check the 1841 census you will find an Elizabeth Hope, aged 92 (b 1749) still alive at Morley, Wilmslow, Pownall fee (HO107 piece 115 folio 6/10 page 13). The NBI has her burial on 23 april 1844, aged 96, at St Bartholomew, Wilmslow, and William's burial in 1854, aged 77. In all the NBI has 31 burials for Hope at Wilmslow St Bartholomew and Dean Row Presbyterian between 1611 and 1966 but I can't give you any more because technically I'm breaking the licence! I would suggest you buy it if you want to find more Hopes at Wilmslow. Does this help? -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE