On 2012/12/07 15:43, Mrs Watson wrote: > After being sentenced to three months imprisonment, my gt gt grandfather, > William Naylor of Bakewell left for New York in Jan 1897, arriving there on 2 > Feb 1897. Are you saying that he was convicted, sentenced but skipped to New York between leaving the dock and arriving at the prison? Just about impossible I should have thought for the end of the 19th century. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg