Hi Mark & Janet, I was very interested to read your message. Was ROBERT MCMASTER related to a SAM MCMASTER of Plank Lane? I have checked on the 1881 and found a MCMASTER family living in Prescot, with two sons, one ROBERT MCMASTER aged 12, the other SAMUEL MCMASTER aged 1 year. Have also found an Edith ECCLESTON aged 7 living in St. Helens. On the 1901 ROBERT was living at the Pigeon Inn, Westleigh, with his wife EDITH. SAMUEL was living in Abram. I couldn't look at his full details as my voucher ran out! The point I am making is that my mother tells me that she lived next door but one to a SAM and EDITH MCMASTER (maiden name ECCLESTON). She was always called EDITH EMMA and lived with her mother until her marriage to SAM. He then moved into the family home at No. 136 Plank Lane. I hope you can make sense of this, as what my mother tells me doesn't square with the census, yet she is quite certain that it was SAM who was married to EDITH. (I must add that my mother is 97 with a very good memory!). Valerie