Hi Ann, the Sunderland's were at High Sunderland, Halifax. Captain Sunderland, fought in Civil War, and went to help Bradford, you can get a CD from Colin Hinson, (see on Rootsweb) it has a Book called Northowram. Colin is on Yorksgen. The |Sunderland's were related to Hemingway's and Lister's of Shibden Hall. Hope this helps Janet Janet Thank you so much I'll get right on it. The Sunderlands seem to be my most promising line with the potential to go back farther than 1800. Dare I hope for the same opportunities and options when I get around to the Holdsworths and the Cores among others? Just for once it would be nice to find an unusual name in the family tree but so far I'm out of luck on that score. On another note, I have some photos of my Sunderlands taken in the early 20th century that I had mentioned in an earlier post. I'd like to send electronic copies to you for the Bradford FHSoc but don't know the email address I should use. Would it be better to have them printed and send them by regular mail? I'm still trying to track down possible relatives but have lost track since the 1901 census. Thank you to others who have responded to my post in the past few days. I appreciate all of your comments and advice and will follow up on all suggestions. Ann Burns

From: Ann Burns <ann.burns@rogers.com> > Hi Ann, > the Sunderland's were at High Sunderland, Halifax. > Captain > Sunderland, fought in Civil War, and went to help Bradford, you can > get a CD from Colin Hinson, (see on Rootsweb) it has a Book called > Northowram. Colin is on Yorksgen. The |Sunderland's were related to > Hemingway's and Lister's of Shibden Hall. Hope this helps Janet > > Janet > > Thank you so much I'll get right on it. The Sunderlands seem to be my > most promising line with the potential to go back farther than 1800. > Dare I hope for the same opportunities and options when I get around > to the Holdsworths and the Cores among others? Just for once it would > be nice to find an unusual name in the family tree but so far I'm out > of luck on that score.> If you have not already done so, you will find an awful lot of information about High Sunderland and its origins in the 16th century by entering "High Sunderland+Halifax" into Google. There are a number of pictures of the exterior and interior of the house at the first website that appears, headed "From Weaver to Web - Browse the Archives". High Sunderland was once a magnificent house that was a favoured candidate for Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Bronte experts say it fitted her description in the novel, however Emily changed the location to Top Withens on the moors near Haworth. High Sunderland fell into disrepair in the 20th century and was finally demolished in the early 1950s. A little-known fact is that one of Britain's most infamous serial killers, John Reginald Halliday Christie, was born very close to High Sunderland, at Black Boy House, Turner Lane, Shibden, Halifax, in 1898. He was hanged in 1953 for the murders of a number of women at 10 Rillington Place, Notting Hill, London. He was, of course, deeply involved in the controversial Timothy Evans case, who was hanged previously for the killing of his wife and child, which some criminologists think were committed by Christie. Forgive me for mentioning these somewhat macabre facts, but I have a large-scale gazetteer of Halifax which shows both High Sunderland and Black Boy House and they are just a short walk from one another. -- Roy Stockdill Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE