On Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:47:17 -0000, Joy Beaton <joy_beaton@hotmail.com> wrote: > Just a question - was Reginald ARKELL connected to John ARKELL and > Thomas ARKELL, who came to Canada. I am going to try and track down a > copy of this book. Hi Joy, There is a Wikipedia page on Reginald ARKELL, which gives the year of the author's birth as 1882 and his birthplace as Lechlade, Gloucestershire, which is near this county's border with Wiltshire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Arkell You should be able to find his family in the censuses. The Wikipedia page also gives a long list of his works. I had one of the three books of his poems with Green Fingers in the title, when I was young. If you put "Reginald Arkell" into Google, there are lots of hits on his name. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com