Hello listers, Joining in the introductions. My name is Eliane Heseltine (nee Mok). I am born and bred Dutch myself, but my husband John was born in Bradford. We live in Zoetermeer, the Netherlands. Our HESELTINE-line starts in Wensleydale. At least two brothers, John and Thomas, came to Bradford (Bowling area) around 1845, presumably to help build the mills (they were stonemasons). John married Mary BRIGGS (from Bradford). Their son William married Teresa DIXON (from Huddersfield). They had three sons that fought in the same regiment (West Yorkshire, 1/6 btn) in WW1: Leonard (my husband´s grandfather), Charles and Harry. It was something that wasn´t talked about in the family. Through sheer luck I managed to find some information in the wardiaries, when I visited the PRO last year, that confirmed that the H. Heseltine mentioned on the Commonwealth Wargraves site was actually greatuncle Harry. It also specified where he died. This last weekend my husband and I travelled to Belgium to vis! it his grave, where he died, and also where Leonard got wounded later. A very moving experience. Leonard married Laura GREENWOOD. This brings me to one of my brick walls. Laura was born in 1888 in Bradford. I can find her with her sister Annie (born 1890) and her father Rowland on the 1901 census, with Rowlands second wife, Mary Emma (CLEGG). (They married in 1895). However, I haven´t been able to find Rowland, Laura and Annie on the 1891 census. I am especially interested in any siblings. So much for the direct line. The side of my husband´s mother has a lot more brick walls. His mother, Sylvia, was born in Worcester, MA. Her mother, Emmie ARMITAGE, was born in Huddersfield (still looking for the birthcertificate), went to the US, where she married Jerome GAREAUX, and had five daughters (Sylvia was the youngest). Somewhere around 1920 Emmie returned to Bradford, with her daughters. The story in the family was that Jerome disappeared and was presumed dead before Sylvia was born. However, I have found in the US-census that Jerome was still very much alive (and remarried) in 1930, in Rhode Island. He died in 1954. But that is about all I could find about the family until now. I am still looking for the names of Sylvia´s sisters. Best wishes to all, Eliane Heseltine