Hi Elizabeth You are most welcome, glad to have been of help to you The only thing missing from your post is perhaps a subject line, this can be important as some do not read all posts and might delete ones that don't interest them, it also keeps the posts on one subject threaded together in the archives (if you are not aware all posts are archived and searchable) Regarding your excess certificate, there are some sites that seek to accumulate the details from certificates ordered in error, I am unsure how effective they are as most people don't seem to know they exist and as there are so many events, you would be very lucky to find one of your own I would say One way of effectively sharing the information is to add a postem to the entry in freebmd, anyone finding the postem would see the details and if you also include an email address (perhaps a throw away address) they could then contact you and a swap could take place but essentially its the information people want See http://www2.freebmd.org.uk/postems-help.html Do post again if you have any further queries on your Banbury links Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Hi Nivard > I am still not fully aware of protocol in responding so hope I am not > breaching ethics of the eng-banbury-area@rootsweb.com > Last August you emailed me information re 1861 UK Census and Richard > Randell, Charlotte Randell and Ephraim. > At the time I thought Ephraim wasn't a family name and put it aside. Just > recently I got Ephraim's birth certificate and lo and behold his parents > were Richard Randle and Ann Gibbs, more importantly they lived at of Blue > Pig Yard, Banbury - the same address as Richard was in the 1851 censu. > Jackpot, so thank you. > In the process of exploring options I have a UK Marriage Cert and a Birth > Cert. that aren't mine - I am happy to provide them to someone can you > help - will mail to UK (I am in Australia). > > Cheers Elizabeth