Hi, Thank you for your help finding Beatrice [Parry] Bates's marriage, child's birth and husbands death. Having discussed this with other members of the family these seem to be the most likely answers so I have splashed out on the certificates. Looking forward now to their arrival. She was my mother's eldest sister by about 10 years and was a bit 'flighty' as they used to say. She had an affair before she was married using another sister's name. Never mind every family has one. Again, many thanks, JUDY ELKINGTON [N. Derbyshire, England] www.elkingtonfamily.com ELKINGTON@rootsweb.com www.one-name.org/profiles/elkington.html