Hello Christina, Well met. I only very recently discovered my relationship to the RANK family, and whilst trawling the 'net came across your correspondence on the subject, through the ERY Lists of 2001, in the Archives. I'm hoping to get hold of the biography of Joseph RANK through the interlibrary loan - but often in the past I have waited months for books, and at my age I am very impatient wanting to know everything yesterday. I have built up a considerable RANK tree. My family, the FEWSONs are a relatively small Holderness family, and my ancestors have been interested in their genealogy since around 1800. Of course that was all direct line stuff of the male lines. I followed the female lines. Then every line that married into the family followed by every line that married into them, and so on in ad finitum! I am related/connected through marriage six times to the RANKs. On the above basis I am related to the RINGROSEs, RINGROSE-VOASEs, VOASE-RINGROSE-VOASEs and VOASEs and therefore the WILSONs of Tranby Croft etc, etc, etc. I don't expect you to remember what was in the bio., but I don't have your branch of the RINGROSEs and wonder whether we can conect? I'm having trouble creating files at the moment so will give an outline: One of my John FEWSONs married a SMITH. Her sister, Fanny Voase Elizabeth SMITH, (their mother was a VOASE), married Thomas RINGROSE who changed their name to RINGROSE-VOASE and later to VOASE alone. To complicate matters four of their children took the name RINGROSE and two, RINGROSE-VOASE. [All to do with inheriting William VOASE's money]. They lived at Anlaby House. I don't have Thomas RINGROSE's parentage - is he related to your family. I don't have Hannah VOASE RINGROSE. I've rambled on far too long - I hope you haven't fallen asleep :-) With kind regards, Peter (Fewson); from a stormy, very windswept St. Ives, Cornwall.