In a message dated 29/07/2004 16:24:11 GMT Daylight Time, williamslorid@msn.com writes: Does anyone out there know if Blackwell is in or around Darlington? Immediately south of Darlington and now absorbed within it, originally centred around Blackwell Grange, a large house. All the standard on-line sources, old maps, GENUKI, Darlington web-sites, etc, etc, will tell you something about Blackwell. Try putting "Blackwell and Darlington" into a search engine. If you have access to a good Library of such old-fashioned things as books, seek almost anything on Co Durham - Surtees County History will be a good one if you can find a copy (or purchase one from Original Indexes). Geoff Nicholson 57 Manor Park, Concord, WASHINGTON, Tyne & Wear NE37 2BU Long-established Professional Genealogist: ask for details of NBL/DUR family history research by THE local expert, working for YOU.