Dear Listers, Thanks to some great suggestions and some help by a Lookup volunteer I have my ggrandmothers family located in the 1851 census. But, do to a mouse going bad on me I lost the email on this look up but I did copy down the names and dates of birth. Janet Lovegrove was kind enough to look up some records in the Mapleton(Mappleton) parish records and found some other information on the family which may allow us to get bck further in our research. Now here is where we are, please forgive me if this is rather long. I have done volunteer research for others here in America and I know how bad I hate it when all I get is "Looking for John Jones". 1851 Census Hull (Sculcoates? Not sure as I am not familiar how the census would have be taken but as you will see later Sculcoates figures into the mix.) Mary Ann Simpson, born, Mappleton, 1807 (Her husband, George, is dead by now as a note in family records says that he died while Dorcus was a baby) Jane Simpson, born Hull Sculcoates, 1829 George P. (Pattison) Simpson, born 1834, Ditto Elizabeth Simpson, born 1839, Ditto Caroline Simpson, born, 1841, Ditto Dorcus Simpson(My Ggrandmother), born 1846, Ditto. >From notes left by earlier family members, Dorcus stated that Mary (Polly) married a Coates, Nan married a Baker. Jane married a Dixon and stayed in England. She said nothing about Elizabeth who is listed in the 1851 census, could it be that one of thgirls above was this Elizabeth? Since it states that Jane stayed in England does that mean that all the other siblings came to America. We can account for Dorcus Caroline and their mother Mary Ann here in America. We also think we have found George Jr here in the 1856 census for Scott Co. Iowa which also shows Mary Ann Simson(Simpson), Caroline, and Dorcus. It also shows for George that he had been in Iowa for a year and the others had not been there quite a year. Dorcus' notes says they "Came to America June 1854" and this census was more than likely taken in 1855 for 1856. I have a baptism for Mary Ann Platts of 1807 Mappleton to Doce(y) and John Platts given to me by Janet. with several other Platts that she thought might be siblings. She also found some Pattinson who had a daughter baptized by the name of Doce. Are these meaningful, I know this was a pattern in America of giving children a mothers maiden name mostly by those of English and Wales ancestory. Well, there you have my story, jump in anywhere if you have some ideas or connections. Leon P.S. We all have our problems but being from Texas is not one of mine.