Hi Laurel, So good to hear from you. I gladly will write what I know...about the TAYLOR folks. John TAYLOR b. ??? somewhere m. at Skelton 1762 to Christian Clark who is from Skelton. Christian Clark was born 1738--d. June 1786. Her husband John TAYLOR d. 1788 Skelton. He was a butcher around 1770, other times a husbandman, and on the death note it stated he was a farmer. This 1st family had all 8 children born in Skelton. Of this marriage came-- 2nd child: John TAYLOR b. 1765 -1809 and he was a master mariner. John TAYLOR b. 1765 married at Brotton to Elizabeth SAYER b. 1775 Skelton. This marriage (as far as I have found had 2 children) Christiana b. 1799 Skelton--She stayed and married and lived around Whitby. John b. 1800 Whitby was a farmer.--He immigrated to the USA. He married at Brotton 1824 Dec. John Taylor b. 1800 married at Brotton to Alice (Ellis) Lockwood b. 1799 Skelton. They had 4 children at Skelton from 1825 -1829. I have found that the 1st two children died within days of birth. I don't know what became of Elizabeth b. 1827 Skelton or George Sayer Taylor b. 1729 Skelton. But I do know that John TAYLOR and his wife Ellis Lockwood immigrated to the US in 1830. They settled in Dearborn Co. Indiana (where many others of N. Yorkshire had settled--so I have many names of Yorkshire to search--) John TAYLOR and his wife Ellis had two more children born in the US---Elizabeth Taylor b. 1832 and George Lockwood TAYLOR b. 1834. So with these last two children having the same names as two children born at Skelton makes me feel that Elizabeth b. 1827 and George Sayer Taylor b. 1829 must have died somewhere around N. Yorkshire. Once in the US John TAYLOR was a farmer his whole life in Dearborn Co. Indiana. He died in 1879 and Ellis died just four years after arriving in the US. Shortly after George Lockwood Taylor was born. Now I keep spinning around searching for John TAYLOR who married at Skelton in 1762--wonder where Old John TAYLOR was born... Margaret