In a message dated 27/10/2004 07:19:51 GMT Daylight Time, oaktree1503@yahoo.co.uk writes: alternatively is anyone researching the LARKIN family. They are not connected to our family, but my sister, like me, is so taken with the monument, she is trying to find a little about its history and the family it commemorates. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>. I don't know the monument, but it seems like an expensive memorial. There do not appear to have been many Larkins in Sunderland, in the 1881 Census there is only one family, that of Peter J. Larkin, a publican at the Crown Inn, Bowes Quay. In the 1901 Census Fred Larkin, his son is also an Inn Keeper. Regards Stan Mapstone www.mapstone.org