In a message dated 12/06/2007 18:56:50 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Hi Listers, Anyone researching the Moody family from Chester le street especially a Thomas Moody born around 1855 married a Ann? Had the following children George born 1885 Joseph born 1891 Thomas born 1886 any information much appreciated Kind regards Wendy Wendy: Perhaps this is relevant and perhaps it is not. For what it's worth (and from my Co Durham baptism index), the baptism of a Thomas Moody, son of John and Elizabeth of Wapping, is in the register of the Primitive Methodist Church at Flag Lane, Sunderland, under date 1 June 1853. I'm not sure whether this means that the child was taken in to the Chapel in Flag Lane, Sunderland, to be baptised, or whether the register in question was perhaps used as a Circuit Register at the time, entries beng made in it of baptisms all over Sunderland Primitive Methodist Circuit, Wapping included. Wapping was a pit village roughly on the site occupied by Burnmoor village today. Before Burnmoor became a parish of its own (1880s) it was part of the parish of Chester le Street. If your information that he had been born in Chester le Street came from eg a census entry then remember that it was normal for the place of birth to be stated as the name of the C of E parish concerned, even if the person referred to was in fact not C of E themselves - a Methodist, for example. Geoff Nicholson