A thank you and a couple more queries for the people on this really helpful list! Thank you for the info on ports for emigration. It would make sense to go almost anywhere from Liverpool - rather than from the Tyne, and of course I had overlooked the advent of the railways! Looking at an admission to Morpeth Lunatic Asylum, in 1871, Elizabeth Lavery was listed as 'lunatic'. In 1881 she was one of the few people listed as an 'idiot'. Can anyone enlighten me as to the difference? And - were young women confined to asylums if they had a child out of wedlock - which I know to have been the case sometimes pre war? Staying with the war - my mother used to go every day by bus to Aycliffe - where I think there must have been a munitions factory. Does anyone know anything about this? Was she required to work there - leaving me at home with grandpatrents? (my father was with the 8th Army ) Many thanks Ann Lavery