In a message dated 22/04/2007 15:40:56 GMT Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: It is unclear if he emigrated from England to the US or from England to Canada initially. Further to Stan's reply, you may be interested to know that there is now a web-site devoted to the passenger lists of the ships that carried emigrants from this country. So far it covers only 1890 to 1919 (or a similar set of years) but it is expanding rapidly. If you have an idea of when he emigrated (and perhaps who went with him, to eliminate any others of the same name) then you may find that the extra details given there (age, etc) are a great help. Stan was right to list some entries that could be yours although they seem at first to be from the wrong time-frame. Ages were very often mis-stated on that, as on many other, occasions. Even when stated correctly, it can be very easy for a transcriber to mis-read two characters from a possibly faded indistinct document. Consider census ages, for instance, where the ages have often been heavily crossed out by clerks more than a century ago. Just one extra practical, though perhaps rather pedantic, point. County Durham is the only English, Welsh or Scottish county to have the word "County" normally used in front of it. All others, whether "Something-shire" (as most are) or such as Somerset, are known just by that single word, or by some standard single-word abbreviation. Indeed this mis-use of the word "county" is one pointer which, apart from the accent, enables British people to tell straight away that someone is from the USA! Geoff Nicholson