Hi from Perth Western Australia. I am trying to trace the family of my Great Grandmother. She was Emma Louise Houghton born at Princes Place Tranmere Birkenhead UK on 28/5/1846 (copy of B/Cert). Her father was shown as William Henry Houghton a Naval Engineer and her mother as Ann Brooks. I saw a William Henry Houghton who died in 4th quarter 1850 at Prescott which is close to Birkenhead but as this was in the St Caths I know no more. Emma L married my Great Grandfather James Stephen Nicholson who became a Lt. Col. in the British Army in India. They had two children Edmund James Houghton Nicholson who became my Grandfather and whom I knew well and Mabel Grace who married a Col. Francis Cunnyhamme - Hughes also of the Army in India . I would be very interested in any information re either the Houghton's from Birkenhead or the family of Mabel and Francis Cunnyhamme- Hughes. Clive Napier cnap@optusnet.com.au