My Dewhurst information begins in Ribchester, Lancaster, England. I have info from the 1851 Liverpool, England census, NYC/USA censuses, and helpful NYC information posted here by Teresa Dewhurst - thanks Teresa! Henry Dewhurst, born abt 1809 in Ribchester, Lancaster, Eng, married Catherine Mooney, born Ireland, and died before 1878. Henry and some sons were plasterers. In 1851 they lived in Liverpool and had: Mary b. abt. 1830, Liverpool John b. abt 1832, Liverpool Margret b. abt 1835, Liverpool Thomas b. abt 1840, Liverpool - wife was Agnes Richard b abt 1844, Liverpool Emma Caroline, b 20 Sep 1846, Liverpool. M. 11 Feb 1868 NYC Milton Joseph Cook div in 1878 Van Buren Co, MI, and she m 2nd Jarvis Macomber Skinner. She died 4 Apr 1895 in Albion, NY. Emma is my gr gr grandmother. William Joseph Dewhurst - b abt 1849 - born surname: Gore, listed as abandoned by parents in 1851 census, but later Dewhursts apparently adopted him, as he lists them as his parents when he married 27 Oct 1872 to Mary Agnes McNally in NYC, and later Elizabeth Connolly in NYC. Cathrine b abt 1851, Liverpool Ann Dewhurst, b 1852 (after 1851 census, but ID'd in later census and family records), probably in Liverpool, married Mr. Mahnkien, NYC, but not living with him in 1880 census. Brick Walls: Henry is not in the IGI. A cousin is looking in the three or so films that Salt Lake City has re Ribchester church records, looking for Henry's parents. Anyone else have Ribchester Dewhursts? There were a lot of them there! I do not know what became of any of my Emma's siblings. I know she was very close to her sister, Ann Mahnkien. I cannot find her in later censuses. I believe she may have remarried, and new surname unknown. Would really like to find some of these relatives. Jana Black wrote: > Hello everyone, > > We have had a nice little burst of new subscribers to our mailing list in the last few weeks, so let's do a ROLL CALL. A Roll CAll is where everyone > sends a post to the list telling: > > 1) who you descend from in what timeframe & where they lived > 2) what the migration path of your line is > 3) what your brick walls in research are > > I will begin with my data in a separate post that you can use as an example. Perhaps we can get some sharing going.... Good luck everyone! Here we > gooooooo ;) > > Jana Black > Listowner, DEWHURST-L