Hi Judy It would be wonderful if we could find a connection. I am in Australia and I have not had too much luck finding any descendants of the Budd children as yet. I have only just discovered a few things so don't have much on the English family as yet. Annie Budd is my great great Grandmother. She was as far as I know the eldest child of George BUDD (b abt 1817) and Margaret CUMMIN(G)S (b abt 1817). George was a railway contractor/excavator and the family moved about a lot. I found Annie's baptism on the internet and via a search thru the LDS.... and then was able to find the 1841 census and had some help with the family in the 1851 census (where they are found in Stevenage in Hertfordshire) and then the 1861 census which was at Kidderminster, Worcestershire. The 1851 census gives this info: George Budd Head M 34 Ropley, Hampshire Margaret Budd Wife M 34 Dallas Forres, Morayshire, Scotland Ann Budd Daughter 9 Balcombe, Susses Sarah Budd Daughter 5 France William Budd Son 4 France Elizabeth Budd Daughter 2 Burnt Tree, Shropshire George Budd Son 1 Hatfield, Hertfordshire The 1861 census gives this info: Margaret C. Budd Head M 43 Elgin, Scotland Sarah Budd Daughter 16 Ruan, France William Budd Son 14 St Lawrence, France James Budd Son 8 Leebotwood, Shropshire Robert Budd Son 6 ?, France I haven't gone back much further than this. Annie married James Green in Bilbao, Spain at the British Consul in 1859. She came to Australia sometime between then and 1865. They had 4 known children: Sarah Ellen GREEN born 1865 and died 1944. She married Julius Alfred GRUBE in 1891 and later John J. WALKER (all occurring in Queensland, Australia) Fanny GREEN died in 1865 (in Queensland, Australia) Birth unknown James GREEN born 1868 (in Queensland, Australia) marriage and death unknown Elizabeth Isobel GREEN birth & death unknown, married Joseph Eyre HEATH in 1881 (in Queensland, Australia) In the 1861 census some of the children including Annie are missing. I am thinking this is the time when she may have gone to Australia but as James was also in the railways they may have been elsewhere at the time of the census. I haven't found the ship they came out on yet. Elizabeth is missing from the 1861 census and she would have been about 12 then and only 9 when Annie was married. I do know however that Elizabeth did grown to adulthood. Where Annie was buried in Brisbane there also was buried a mystery lady (Lilly Ruth Davies) that took me a while to work out who she was but her death index gives her mother as Elizabeth Budd and father as William (Davies I'm assuming) I have not found any marriages for her. Anyway that's enough for now I hope you can find a connection... I would be so surprised and delighted if you do :) Regards Deb