Hello everyone I have really enjoyed reading the many stories shared by listers of their mothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers. I too have a short tale to share. My great great grandmother Mary Ann Hatton bc1801 in Liverpool was the eldest child of 8 children born to Thomas Hatton and Mary Connor. Her father was a liquor merchant or liquor dealer (according to different records) most likely born in Liverpool clate 1770s. Of Mary Connor - she could well be Irish - that as yet I do not know. But is Mary Ann that I wish to pay tribute to. When I visited Liverpool in August 2010 for the first time - I felt as if I belonged there! On my return home I began to research Mary Ann and her family further. With the help of fellow listers I then discovered that Mary Ann was of Liverpool not Manchester as I had first thought so many many years earlier. I now believe she was looking after me in Liverpool...and yes I'm coming back this year to find out more! Briefly - she married Christopher Oates Colley in 1830 at St Phillips Church, Liverpool to whom she had 4 children - Arthur, Charles, Emily and Walter. Sadly she died prior to the 1841 census - in May 1839 at Cheetham Hill of a long illness (possibly consumption). Later her husband and children emigrated to Australia but that is another story. warm greetings from Victoria, Australia Elizabeth