Hi, My grandmother, Mary Louise Bollends Olson, said that she was born in Stirtloe House in Peterbrough, Huntingdonshire in 1866. The family has a picture of it and it notes that it was built sometime in the 1600's. Does anyone know if that could be correct? Would that house still stand? Mary's parents were Richard Bollends (Bollen, Bollens) and Mary Ann Baker. Is anyone researching that family? Any information about that house or any family connected with that name would be so welcome. This family came to America in 1870 and settled in Illinois, then went to Nebraska to homestead on farms there; some of them returned to Illinois in about 1895. I live in Roseville, Illinois where they settled in 1870. Hoping for some answers. Mary Worthington