This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YVW.2ACEB/3406.1 Message Board Post: Only recently taken up tracing family history after a break of 15yrs. My old notes show an Anne Bickerdike born in 1855, the daughter of Mathew Bickerdike (a farmer at Harewood in Yorkshire) & his wife Mary Smith. She was the eldest of 8 children. Don't know if this is any use to you. Regards, Elaine Catt. (nee Bickerdike)