Hi List, This is my request for help in what seems an impossible task. Is anyone researching HALL's in Sunderland I have found my GG, John HALL (what an uncommon name!), or John Fortune Hall a coal miner, born circa 1861in Sunderland, son of John Hay HALL, master mariner, (no info). In March 1891 he married Dorothy A GREENWELL in Newcastle (9 Low Friar Street) but moved immediatetly to Felling. My grandfather, Edward Greenwell HALL, (known later as Edward GREENWELL) was born in Felling a year later. Dorothy died two years later and Edward was brought up by his Grandmother Elizabeth FATKIN (previously GREENWELL ms PEARSON), but all trace of John HALL , beyond his marriage registration and the 1891 census, has eluded me. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks. John Leadbeater Newton Kyme, North Yorks Researching GREENWELL, PEARSON, AINSLEY, COULSON and HALL in Co Durham and Newcastle