Hello everyone This is my first posting to this list. My Gt Gt Grandfather, Thomas CUMMINS, was a tailor. He first turns up in Manchester in 1852 with the birth of a daughter, Mary (who married John BARNETT). Thomas is married to Bridget GORMAN but I have no birth information for her apart from "Ireland". I have found neither Thomas nor Bridget on the 1851 census. They are in Oldham in 1871 but do not appear on the 1881 or 1891 censuses; according to the 1901 census, there is a Thomas CUMMINS, of approximately the right age and "previously a tailor resident in the Chorlton Workhouse. His place of birth is given as Ireland, Galway" and his age as 74 - making his birth c.1826. Any connections with Thomas or Bridget very very gratfully received. Jeannie