Hello Karen I also have SAVAGES with a Sunderland connection James Henry WOODRUFF born in about 1810 in Sunderland married Maria SAVAGE in about 1840. There was some family connection to Savage Shoes - but this is not a branch of our tree that I know a lot about. Perhaps we have a connection Heather *************** > Just today I found my Savage family in Sunderland: > > James and Annie (Cooper) Savage married in 1890 in Milngavie, Scotland > Elizabeth > Catherine (my Grandmother) > James > Alice > Andrew > All the above born in Scotland > Annie born in Sunderland in 1901 (she was less than a month old at the time > of the 1901 census)