Hello Lola, The parish records for St.Aidan's, Boosbeck will be held at Teesside Archives, 6 Marton Road, Middlesbrough, TS1 1DB (Tel: +44 1642 224 8321). The staff here are a very friendly and helpful bunch. You can e-mail them at: - teessidearchives@middlesbrough.gov.uk. I live in Guisborough, a small market town just five miles away from Boosbeck and have been researching my own ancestry for about nine months. Neither the HUSBAND nor AGAR surnames feature in my family tree but I do recall seeing many instances of them in the parish register for All Saints, Skelton-in-Cleveland. Both surnames are quite prevalent in the area. They registered with me as I saw them because, when growing up in Skelton as a small boy in the 1950s, a family of AGARs lived a few doors down the street from my home. Later, a HUSBAND was the milk delivery man. If you succeed in finding something out about George and Emma/Eva and push further back in time you'll probably end up searching in All Saints Skelton registers. These are also held at Teesside Archives. Another possible source of information for the local ironstone mining community is the excellent set of booklets published by Peter Tuffs (a local historian) entitled: Directory of Cleveland Ironstone Miners and their Associates. It comes in five volumes (A5 booklets) and comprises transcriptions of items taken from the local newspapers of the time. There are references to AGARs as follows: Forename, Occupation, Article dated, Volume Barker, Miner, 2 Jun 1908, 1 George, Miner, 15 Nov 1905, 2 James, Miner, 3 Jan 1880, 2 Joseph, Miner, 5 Nov 1875, 4 Joseph, Miner, 3 Jan 1880, 2 Ralph, Farmer, 9 Feb 1866, 1 Thomas, Builder, 4 Aug 1883, 1 Thomas, Miner, 27 Dec 1905, 2 Thomas, Deputy-overman, 31 Oct 1907, 2 These booklets can be obtained from Guisborough Bookshop: http://www.guisboroughbookshop.com/ Hope this helps you. Don't hesitate to ask for any clarification on these or any other aspects of research in the Cleveland area of the UK. regards, Peter -----Original Message----- From: Yikasub@aol.com [mailto:Yikasub@aol.com] Sent: 12 September 2003 13:22 To: ENG-NORTH-YORKS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [N'Yorks] Re: ENG-NORTH-YORKS-D Digest V03 #205 RE: HUSBAND / AGAR MARRIAGE Just wondering how I look up Church records for St. Aidans, Boosbeck. I think my grandparents, George HUSBAND and Emma or Eva AGAR married in 1911 at this church. Trying to find out Emma's dads name - he was known as "Smack" AGAR. But what was his real name I wonder. He died in Lingdale approx. 1929. An ironstone miner all his life. He would also have had a record for poaching - Guisborough Court House probably over a number of years whilst trying to feed 12 children. Lola HUSBAND Fremantle, Western Australia ==== ENG-NORTH-YORKS Mailing List ==== *** Tired of this LIST? Going on vacation, a business trip? *** Send an email with one word, UNSUBSCRIBE, in the Subject and Message area to: ENG-NORTH-YORKS-L-request@rootsweb.com. Digest? "L" into "D". ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237