Les Morris writes: >Can anybody out there point me in the right direction to find >records of the Cleator Moor Cooperative Society? > >I have just discovered that my ggg grandfather Thomas MULLEN was >the Secretary in 1885. <snip> Always worth looking at the National Register of Archives for this sort of thing: http://www.hmc.gov.uk/nra/nra2.htm In this case it has: Cleator Moor Co-operative Society Cleator Moor, Cumberland 1858-1939 : rules, corresp, reports, balance sheets and papers, agreements and corresp with firms Cumbria Record Office and Local Studies Library, Whitehaven Reference : YDB 37 [link to online catalogue] see County Archivist's report 10 March 1975 The 'link to online catalogue' is a link to the A2A database: http://www.pro.gov.uk/catalogues/a2a.htm You may find that you get some specific hits by searching for Mullen on A2A (but I haven't checked this) - limit the online search to the Whitehaven record office. To see the records you need to get to Whitehaven. If you aren't within striking distance you can use the Cumbria Archive Service at: http://www.cumbria.gov.uk/archives/ Chris chris@dickinson.uk.net