Hi from sunny West Oz, I have a puzzle and I am hoping that all the brilliant listers that subscribe to this wonderful list (is that enough sucking up???), can guide me to a solution. I have James EVERETT b c 1834, Catwick, Yorks, who according to the 1881 census, married to Ellen b c 1844, Beverley, Yorks. With them resided the following offspring. Henry TATE - stepson - aged 15, b London Middlesex James W TATE - stepson - aged 11, b London, Middlesex John TATE - stepson - aged 8, b Scotland Thomas S TATE - stepson - aged 9. b Scotland AND Ann E EVERETT - daughter - aged 5, b Beverley, Yorkshire Charlotte EVERETT - daughter - aged 4, b Beverley, Yorkshire Martha A EVERETT - daughter - aged 2, b Beverley, Yorkshire I searched for John & Thomas birth records in Scotland and came up with Thomas Scruton TATE, b 25/05/1871, Coldstream, Berwick, Scotland - Father: John TATE, Mother: Ellen SCRUTON John TATE, b 01/01/1873, Coldstream, Berwick, Scotland - Father: John TATE, Mother: Ellen SCRUTON And in England Henry Amos TATE, christened 18 May 1859, Auckland Saint Andrew, Durham, England - Father: John TATE, Mother: Ellen John William TATE, christened 25 June 1862, Auckland Saint Andrew, Durham, England - Father: John TATE, Mother: Ellen I also found Ellen SCRUTON married John TATE, 25 Dec 1868, Saint James, Westminster, London I perhaps erroneously assumed that Ellen married John TATE, he died or whatever and she married James EVERETT. HOWEVER, the only marriage I can locate for James EVERETT is that to Ellen LONGMAN on 22 Nov 1873, East Wellow, Hampshire. Can someone please help me work out where I have gone wrong? I can't work out how else the TATE boys would be with James and Ellen, unless they were her sons, yet the names don't match up properly. All records I have used are extracted records not people inserts. Cheers from a very puzzled and bewildered Linda (Perth West Oz)