From: JJupar@aol.com > > If you live outside England then you can look up the names of all the > towns and villages in Yorkshire in Genuki. > > > _http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Where/_ > (http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Where/) > > If there is a letter in brackets after the name (N) North riding, (W) > West Riding (E) East riding. There is no South Riding.> Except in a novel of the name by Winifred Holtby. > I did have a look for Martin-cum-Grafton and as a name it is not there > but Grafton is there and so Martin-cum-Grafton means near Grafton > so do not give up. < It's actually MARTON cum Grafton and here is the description from the Yorkshire pages of GENUKI..... "MARTON, a parish-town, in the upper division of Claro, liberty of St. Peter; 3 miles S. of Boroughbridge, 6 from Knaresborough, 15 from York. Pop. including Grafton, 464, which being united form a township. The Church is a vicarage, in the deanry of Boroughbridge, diocese of Chester, value, ~£2. 19s. 4d. Patron, St. John's College, Cambridge." "GRAFTON, in the township of Marton cum Grafton, and parish of Marton, upper division of Claro, a part in the liberty of St. Peter; 3 miles S. of Boroughbridge, 6¼ from Knaresborough. Pop. included in Marton." Here is a step-by-step guide to find out where virtually anywhere in Yorkshire is located..... 1) Enter "GENUKI+Yorkshire" into Google and you will be taken straight to the appropriate Genuki page. 2) Click on "Where is it in Yorkshire?" 3) Scroll down the page and select the initial letter of the place you seek in the grid. 4) When you've found the place, click on the link next to it and you will be taken to another page that gives information about it. What could be simpler? -- Roy Stockdill Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org 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