thank you to Tony Finally able to contact Sheffield archives and hopefully, now will be able to get there Lynne in Oz > >Wiliam's army records will be at the National Archives (formerly Public >Record Office) at Kew. You may be able to trace his ancestors in the >Rawmarsh parish registers. The original registers are at Sheffield >Archives, 52 Shoreham Street, Sheffield S1 4SP >(sheffield.archives@dial.pipex.com). Microfiche copies and typescript >transcripts are held by Rotherham Archives & Local Studies Service, >Central Library, Walker Place Rotherham S65 1JH >(archives@rotherham.gov.uk). _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/hotmail_mobile.asp