Hello everybody, Re-posting my interests after a l - o - n - g absence, Thomas URWIN was born at Blanchland in 1806. He married Isabella ANDERSON in 1825. They had two children, John Jackson URWIN, (my great grandfather) born 1827, and Sarah Ann URWIN, born 1829. All three events taking place in Sunderland. I can find no trace of Thomas' death which I know was prior to 1854. I have no further information about John Jackson Urwin until 1856 when he is recorded as being a colliery viewer at Wearmouth Colliery. In later years he became a teacher at the Commercial and Nautical Academy, and then the Wearmouth Colliery Educational Institute, all Sunderland. In about 1865 he and his family moved to the village of Gillcrux, Cumberland where they lived until their final move to Middlesbrough three years later, where he is recorded as being the principal of Brougham Street Academy. In 1853 Sarah Ann Urwin is recorded as owning the Temperance Dining and Coffee Rooms, 200,High Street, Sunderland where she offered "Refreshments of every description on the shortest notice" and also "Well-aired beds." In 1854 she married James Hardie at Holy Trinity Church, Sunderland. I have further records and information of my Urwin family available to anyone interested, and any further information anyone can offer to me will be most welcome. Ken Urwin, Middlesbrough, NE England.