Hello Doreen, You have just made me a veeeeeeeeeery happy person. Thank you, thank you. For 10 years I haven't found anything about George & Martha other than the wedding cert and info after they arrived in Australia. I couldn't even identify where middleton was. You've now given my the names of my gt gt gt gt grandparents. What a thrill. Got to go to Rotary tonight, but will be on the net following up after work tomorrow. Thank you again, Jenny -----Original Message----- From: doreen EL-AHWANY [mailto:doreen@elahwany.freeserve.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, 17 November 2005 12:19 AM To: ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L] Bradbury and Shoesmith Hi Jenny, You have got the right Middleton. George and Martha were married on the 15th Oct 1843 at St Leonards Middleton. Below are one or two mentions from my indexes - not yet complete - still ongoing. You will probably need to find both families on the 1841 census. Marriages. St Leonards Middleton. 29 Sep 1816. James Bradbury and Betty Cousen. 1 July 1794. Jude Shoesmith and Matty Kenyon. Baptisms St Leonards Middleton. 25 Oct 1807. Arch. s/o Jude and Martha Shoesmith. Farmer of Thornham. 11 March 1810. John s/o Jude and Martha Shoesmith. Farmer of Thornham. There isn`t a previous marriage for George Bradbury at St Leonards. Could be Prestwich St Marys or Oldham St Marys if he was in the area. I couldn`t find a wife of George buried in Middleton before 1843, but for that period have only indexed 1837-47 (1814-37 still to do). Hope this helps a little. Doreen. ==== ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, you should send the command "unsubscribe" to ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or ENG-LAN-MIDDLETON-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) To switch from one mode to the other, you should unsubscribe from one and then subscribe to the other. If you want messages to stop, you should simply unsubscribe.