In a message dated 22/07/2007 09:02:12 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Sorry for not putting enough information.Trying to locate the 1851 census for WILLIAM WESTGARTH D.O.B. ABT 1826 WALLSEND NORTHUMBERLAND Jan: On the NDFHS index to the 1851 census of Wallsend there are: Wesgarth Elizabeth WI M 23 Wallsend NBL 67/2 1C Wesgarth George Stubbs SO U 2 Wallsend NBL 67/2 1C Wesgarth Mary Ann DA U 6M Wallsend NBL 67/2 1C Wesgarth William HD M 26 Scholar Wallsend NBL 67/2 1C Note the way in which the surname has been spelled. Being taken from an index the order of the entries is alphabetic, as above, and the details given are as above. The references are non-standard and consist of the folio number and the enumeration district number. I would therefore have given the references as "1851 census, piece HO 107/2409, folio 67. "67/2" would be, more correctly "67v", though it should hardly be necessary to mention whether the entry is on the recto or the verso! William's occupation as a "scholar" is surprising for someone his age, and a married man with two children! Perhaps he was taking some part-time night-school course or perhaps the transcriber mis-read whatever it does say. You will need to look iup the original and decide that for yourself. The description of the enumeration district is: "All that part of the township of Wallsend situated on the north side of the Newcastle and Shields turnpike from Mr Dodds shoemaker on the west, Mr Dodds farm on the north and front of Church Bank on the west including within these limits Turnpike Road, West Row, Shiney Row, Bridge Row, Swan Row and Wallsend Village." One of those "west" words will be a mis-reading for "east"! Probably it should say "Church Bank on the east", as Church Bank is well east of old Wallsend Village. I strongly recommend the NDFHS indexes to the 1851 census. They are reasonably priced and are available as microfiche, booklets and/or CD-ROMs. They cover the whole of Northumberland and Co Durham apart from those southern parts of Co Durham covered by Cleveland FHS. Within the NDFHS district there is now the whole of Tyne and Wear. See _www.ndfhs.org.uk_ (http://www.ndfhs.org.uk) . An index to Wallsend baptisms 1813-39 is also available from the NFDHS (Ancestral Indexes section). Geoff Nicholson