In a message dated 10/05/2007 14:16:20 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: "native of Holwick" merely refers to the fact that he was living in Holwick at the time of the baptism. NO! NO!! NO!!! "Native of" somewhere means "born there". It says nothing at all about where, or whether, he was baptised, nor about where else he may have lived at any other time of his life. However, "NATIVE of" always means "born there". This is not a point of genealogical nor, in general, historical, research, but a simple application of the English language - see the entry under "native" in any standard English Dictionary (eg the Concise Oxford). Birthplaces and baptism places in the Holwick district of Teesdale will be complicated by the parishes south of the Tees having been part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, and of the Diocese of York, at the time in question. Also, apart from surrounding Durham and Yorkshire Church of England parishes, note that Teesdale, as well as having the Methodist Chapels often to be found in mining districts, both coal mining and, as here, lead mining, also was a centre of Quaker activity. Geoff Nicholson