Hi all, Just joined this list to try to find my gr.gr.grandmother Hannah BURN. >From various census details she gives her birthplace as Cockerton,Durham,in 1796. I can find no mention of her birth on IGI & am not able to check any films or fiches anymore,due to illness. Am I right in thinking that the nearest place she could have been christened would have been at Darlington? Also,could Darlington be under north yorkshire as well as Durham? Hannah married George THOMPSON at Stokesley on the 19th July 1825. She could have already had a daughter,Mary,born 1816 at Stokesley,mother Hannah Burn,not many other BURN's in the area. Also,in the 1841 census for Stokesley,there is an Alice THOMPSON with the family,aged 20,but no birth for her either. She could have been Hannahs daughter before marriage again,as see below. >From the IGI,an Alice BURN ,has a son in 1844 called George,but he died in 1845,could this be a coincidence,or is this the same Alice Thompson,living with family in 1841,but really Alice BURN. Any suggestions on how to sort this out would be greatfully recieved,as I have been trying to sort this out for 5 years now,but cant get any nearer. George Thompson & Hannah Burn were the parents of George Thompson,born 1835 at Stokesley,who married Jane ABBOTT in 1855 at Richmond.(Jane's father was Joseph Abbott born 1813 at Richmond. One of his brothers George Brown ABBOTT,moved to Bishop Auckland inbetween 1847 & 1850) Their daughter Alice THOMPSON married William ELY in Skipton in 1896 & my father was born in 1907(the ELY line is just as hard,it stops at 1822). I would be grateful for any ideas or if anyone can see something I have missed. Best wishes, Joyce