And then some of us sit back and receive mails willing to help but at the same time we are cemented into a brick wall as in my case. ;-) Janet My names: KIRKPATRICK, JOHNSON, SILLERS or SELLERS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandra Durkin" <thedurk@btinternet.com> > Hi John > > I think Marged just started replying to the wrong e-mail and clicked 'send' > instead of delete - hence her second message. > > Good idea to repost interests and questions, we get new people joining lists > all the time so ever hopeful of a breakthrough!! > > And talking of reposting - I wondered if anyone on the list has 'claimed' > the Sarah BALDWIN who married Henry IRVING at Wavertree, St Michael in 1872. > And if so, do they know where she was born. She's the only possible find so > far for my great-great-grandmother Sarah IRVING born in Enville, > Staffordshire, who was a widow by the 1891 and 1901 census living with her > daughter and family (George and Mary GUY and children) but I can't find her > in 1881. > > And to complicate matters, I thought my grandmother was born Sarah GUY the > daughter of George and Mary GUY. But I then found she was born before their > marriage as Sarah IRVING on 21 January 1887 and no father on the birth > certificate. > > Sandra