Hi Peter Thanks for your reply. No the family are Irish, they went to England I think around 1863 to 1864. Their son James was born in Ireland and there son Hugh was born in Spennymoor, Durham England. It seems as though Hugh senior has died in 1867 and his wife Margaret has remarried as she appears on the 1871 Census and as the family were in Ireland in 1861 I don't think there is anything I can check there. My guess is he could have been a coal miner not sure though. There is one Hugh Haney who died in Spennymoor, Durham age fits with his birth about 1833, and his son Hugh was born in Spennymoor so I just put two and two together. So in 1861 they were in Ireland and in 1871 they were in England seems as though they stayed on in England from then by all the census's I have checked. Kind regards Dianna