Hello there, Have been studying the list for some time and wonder if anyone can assist with information on my COATES family. I have my G.G.Grandfather John Coates, born in or near the Parish of St. Mary's, Lincoln in 1816, according to his Army papers. He enlisted in the 22nd Foot Cheshire Regiment in Hull in 1836. He married in India when with the Regiment giving his father's name as Thomas. He married a Mary Anne (Marian) Brophy (widow) with two small children, Catherine Priscilla and John, Sgt. John Coates adopted them, and John (Brophy) Coates was my Great Grandfather. Sgt. John Coates returned to the U.K. with the Regiment in 1855 and went to the Lincs Militia in Spittlegate, Grantham, Lincs. He died there in 1881, and on the 1881 census it showed Marian Coates still living there with two children, Frederick William aged 18 and Edith Martha aged 20. I have been unable to trace Marian, Frederick Wm. or Edith Martha since that census. I am wondering if anyone in Lincs has any information which may help me. I will be in the U.K. in June/July, and would be grateful for any leads to follow, as I only have dead ends at the moment.