Hi Valerie and listers, Some time ago you sent me an article on the Boltonrevisited web site which mentioned some ROONEYs thus: "In summer, on warm days, aunty Mary Ellen Rooney who lived next door, would get the tin bath down off the wall and between them gran and her would fill it with warm water and bath me and Jacky Rooney in the backyard. We loved it because we were outside and could splash about and make as much mess as we liked. Jacky was a boy with red hair and freckles and a devilish sense of humour. We used to get a couple of pieces of wood and pretend we were rowing to America. That old tin bath would become a train, a boat or a plane or whatever we wanted it to be. We were kept clean with Wrights Coal Tar Soap and regularly got our heads soaked in "nit" lotion even if we didn't have nits. We were kept "regular" with Angiers Brand Emulsion, Syrup of Figs, Carters Little Liver Pills and Andrews Liver Salts" taken from: http://www.boltonrevisited.org.uk/184.html by Jacqui KILCOYNE I am now of the belief that these ROONEYs are mine! Hoohaa! I would love to get in contact with Jacqui to see if she can recall anything else about the family. I will post my theories on this new family in another email to the list. Thanks for any help. Best wishes, Sharon in Perth, Western Australia http://users.bigpond.net.au/bunter/bury_parish.htm Bury Parish Pages - just beginning