This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: FISHER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/YVW.2ACEB/1429.1436.1440 Message Board Post: Time has moved along. Allan can you get back to me with more detail on the parentage of your James. He should be findable in the 1901 census and I have developed much better information on Wigan relations. In fact I have a list of all Fishers in Wigan in 1901 grouped by family and have found one family with a Mary born 1893 and a James born 1885. FreeBMD is now up to 40+ million records so the odds of finding someone are pretty good. There are about 105 million records total, so that is about 40% chance. You will only make progress if you get the marriage certificate of Mary Ann and John Harmsworth; unfortunately it would appear that they married in about 1915-1918 which is not being trnacribed by FreeBMD until the records are 100 years old. You'll have to search the fiche for them. It would probably take about 30 minutes. Order the certificate and have a look at the parents. We can easily go from there.