I am new to this list and seeking any links to my BAXTER ancestry, and also hoping to solve the following mystery. I am seeking details of the death of William BAXTER in Austria in 1870, having only recently found his Memorial Inscription on the grave of his parents at Alconbury Cum Weston. His death has not been found in Civil Registration or in the index to Deaths Abroad. His occupation was given as 'Railway Contractor - deceased' on the marriage certificate of his daughter Mary in 1880. So what was he doing in Austria? My tree looks like this: Thomas BAXTER (b. ca 1755) | m. 29 July 1779 in Bluntisham Cum Earith, HUN, ENG | Mary DOCKERILL (b. ca 1755) |____________________ | John BAXTER (b. ca 1790 - bap. 26 August 1790 Bluntisham Cum Earith) | m. 30 October 1810 in Alconbury Cum Weston, HUN, ENG | Mary RIGNAL (b. 1793 in Alconbury Cum Weston) |______________________ | William BAXTER (b. ca 1826, bap. 12 February 1826 in Alconbury Cum Weston) (died 27 August 1870, Austria - buried Alconbury Cum Weston) | m. ca. 1856 | Mary KEAY ( b. ca 1835, bap. 13 March 1836 in Whitchurch, SAL, ENG) |_________________________ | Mary Elizabeth BAXTER (b. 31 January 1859 in St Johns, Bedwardine, WOR, ENG) Mary was my great grandmother. She came to Melbourne, Australia in 1891 with her infant daughter, Daisy Roberta, but NOT with her husband Robert HANDCOCK. Mary's (only? brother) Alfred William BAXTER (b. 1861 in Worcester) went to Canada. I have very little information about him and have not been able to ascertain if he had any children. Sometime after William's death, his widow Mary, remarried to his brother, Richard BAXTER, (b. 1837, bap. 26 February 1837 in Alconbury Cum Weston). They lived in Whitchurch, Shropshire and his occupation was shown on the 1881 census as 'Aerated Water Manufacturer' and later, in 1892, as a Surveyor. I would be most grateful for any suggestions of further research strategies as I will be visiting Huntingdonshire in October. Jo Grant, Australia