Darly, You could contact the Association of Cricket, Statisticians and Historians: the have a web site at http://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/ I have found information there that my gggrand-father played for the MCC in 1861 - once! Happy hunting Rosemary, Northumberland UK Rosemary's Family History - and photographs from the North of England http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rprobert/index.htm In message of 23 Dec you wrote: > Not sure if this has actually appeared in the list, so here it is again.. > Hello listers, > I have just subscribed to this list, and I wonder if anyone can help me > please? > I am descended from Thomas Ward and Alice Jane Weatherill who married at > Wilton near Redacar in 1869. > When I started my research about ten years ago, a great aunt of mine assured > me that there is a connection with the great cricketer Hedley Verity who > played for Yorkshire and England during the 1930s, and died as a Prisoner of > War in Italy, I believe in 1943. The connection has never been proven one > way or the other, but my great aunt said that the connection was through the > Weatherill family, and also mentioned a related family named Peacock. > I have looked at websites detailing the life and achievements of Hedley > Verity, also loaned a biography of the man from my local library, and even > contacted it's author, but I can't establish anything! > This may seem a bit vague, but can anyone help? > Daryl Jones.