Thank you, Linda and Tony, and also Edna for your replies. Edna referred me to the Streetmap site which shows the names adjacent to each other. I had looked in my two huge maps books, neither of which showed Landport, so I wondered if the name had been changed. Throughout the censuses my man put either Landport or Portsea as his place of birth, but I have just found another one saying Portsmouth, so I am now happy that they are all the same man. Thank you all very much for your help. Dorothy Morrissey Whakatane, NZ Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com