Hello from Down Under to all those helpful people at the Cornish List Thanks to the great Cornish resources you have suggested I have opened a Pandora's Box of information on William Hosken RICHARDS (brother of Christopher Ellis RICHARDS ) .....! Virtually all one needs to know :-) If only the same applied to the chap I started out looking into - his brother Christopher. Although I do now have much more than when I started out..... Thanks to helpful assistance from all of you. (Still wondering "why did he leave Cornwall and his wife and 2 children..?") I also have various information regarding PLINT and RICHARDS in South Africa - but how and when did William Tredwin RICHARDS & Elizabeth Jane PLINT (& her family) get there...? I have Elizabeth Jane PLINT 1861 & 1871 UK census (parents Edwin & Mary Ann)........... I have William Tredwen RICHARDS (with mother and uncle on 1861) on 1871 & 1881 with mother and sister............. (William's father Christopher Ellis RICHARDS by then was in Australia) Can anyone suggest where I should look to find them leaving UK to go to South Africa....? Regards Barb