>Dear Mary, I can not help you with your specific question, but maybe this might help: I was having trouble finding some of my family in Hereford and it turned out that many of my branches went off to USA with the Mormans in about 1840's to 1881's.You might find the same happened to your FIRKINS as when I punched in my PERKINS name if interest on LDS IGI one of the entires was a PERKINS with a middle name Firkins so the families must have intermarried at some stage. There is a FIRKINS on LDS site. Regards Vicky My direct and branch lines of interest in area around Orcop and Allensmore Hereford are: BEVAN ( a GG Uncle James BEVAN went to Tooele),and lost Sophia BEVAN in Australia . MORGAN ( George and his wife went to USA ) GOUGH,PRITCHARD,EVANS,MORRIS,APPERLEY,BURFORD,BOULTER,ADDIS.PEMBER,DAVIES, WILLIAMS.GIBBONS,PERKINS.WOODHOUSE,KNIGHT,PRICE. >______________________________X-Message: #1 >Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 16:50:19 -0000 >From: "Mary McLean" <mary@b153pe.freeserve.co.uk> >HPFOEKLCNAA.mary@b153pe.freeserve.co.uk> >Subject: [HEF] Alice Gelina FIRKINS >I have the birth certificate for Alice Gelina FIRKINS. born 25 Oct 1856 at >Hope, Bishop's Frome, Hereford and Worcester.She was the daughter of >George FIRKINS an Ag. Lab. and Mary Ann FIRKINSformerly RHEECan anyone >tell me anything about this family? >Who did this Alice marry?Did they remain in this area ? >I am looking for an Alice FIRKINS born around this time but I cannot find a >birth registration in the Kings Norton Registration District which is where >she said she was born according to later census data.(1891 and 1901) >I am looking for someone whose father died when she was young, or perhaps >both parents died. She did not know the name of her father when she married >in 1886. Perhaps she was also unsure of her age and place of birth. >Of course she may have been illegitimate which was not the case for this >Alice Gelina FIRKINS >I know who my Alice married so can anyone help me to rule out Alice Gelina >or tell me anything more about her?Alice has been my Brick Wall for years >so I would really like to solve thispuzzle. Regards Mary