Dear List I have rejoined after my last go in 2003 to try to find this elusive couple. A note in my grandmothers' writing says Elizabeth was "probably from Bristol , however queries to that list make it clear that they didn't marry there. So did they marry in Birmingham? Or did they not marry? Edward BRISTOW was baptized in Feckenham, Worcestershire 9 Feb 1766. He was the son of John BRISTOW and Mary CROW. ("My mother Mary Bristow" was mentioned in her son Edward's will as living in Feckenham). I don't know when Edward went to Birmingham, but all his children except the last one, Sarah, who was my ancestor, were baptised at St. Martin's in Birmingham, the first one in in 1793. So if the father Edward married Elizabeth it would probably have been some time before that date. Sometime between 1801 when son William Bristow was baptized in Birmingham, and 1803 when Sarah was born in Liverpool, the family must have moved from Birmingham to Liverpool. It was said, again in a note from my grandmother, that Edward was "a cloth manufacturer in Liverpool, with a contract to supply cloth to the army". Their children were: 1. Rev. Edward BRISTOW baptized 14 Oct 1793 at St. Martin's, Birmingham. He married three times, to Sophia E. MATHER in 1815, Jane BIGG in 1827, and Emma BOURNE. Tragically he was widowed three times, the second wife and their two children all dying within a few days of each other. 2. Thomas Smith BRISTOW baptized 20 May 1796 at St. Martin's. He married Jane Fleming in Liverpool in 1816 and had five children. 3. John BRISTOW born about 1797 in Birmingham. He married (1st) Ann Elizabeth McMORRAN in in 1834 in St. Mark's, Liverpool and had two children. And (2nd) Anne Elizabeth BRENNAN in 1837 in St. Paul's, Liverpool, and had seven children. 4. Elizabeth BRISTOW in 1797 in St. Martin's, Birmingham and didn't marry 5. Mary BRISTOW (known in our family as Aunt Spencer), was baptized 1798 in St. Martin's, Birmingham, and married Edward SPENCER in St. Mary's, Edge Hill. 6. William BRISTOW was baptized in 1802 in St. Martin's, Birmingham. He married twice, (1st) to an unknown lady, one daughter, and (2nd) to a Miss McMORRAN, five children. 7. Sarah BRISTOW was born in 1803 in Liverpool, and she married Rev. Joseph Docker of Westmorland in St. Mary's, Edge Hill, and came to Australia where they left many descendants. Elizabeth BRISTOW the mother of these children, died when Sarah was a young child, and I haven't been able to find a burial for her either. It was as though she didn't exist - at least in official records! Though I do have the copy of a portrait which was sent to Sarah Docker in Australia as a reminder of her late mother. Any assistance with this family would be VERY gratefully received - especially Elizabeth's Smith's ancestors. Best wishes Merilyn Pedrick Aldgate, South Australia