Is this the time of the year for Ghost Stories etc? I just thought I would share this family story with the list. My late brother and I originally started working together on our family history and the following was one of his recollections. I quote "I had heard the tale previously as being common in the RICHARDSON family for there to be knocking on the door and when answered no one to be there, this happening shortly prior to a death at the house or in the family. One afternoon in 1935 my Grandmother MARGARET RICHARDSON, heard knocking on the front door and when she answered it there was no one there. This upset her but her younger son, John, said it was probably the kids from next door playing tricks. Less than an hour later my Grandfather, TOM RICHARDSON, who had been in good health died suddenly from a heart attack while building a new wireless set. A later check established that none of the neighbours' children were about at the time of knocking" Now please don't tell me that I have a connection to the name BYRNE - tough enough sorting out the RICHARDSON/WILLIAMS lot!! I would just like to wish all those on the list a happy and peaceful Christmas and happy hunting in 2006 Joyce Tunstead -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.1/206 - Release Date: 16/12/05

Joyce I am researching the Richardson family as well as the Beatty. My Richardsons came from Borrisokane, Co Tipperary, Ireland originally but married into the Beatty family of Co Wicklow. Frederick Richardson with his wife Mary came to Canada in the early 1800s. His son Frederick William m Anne Haskett in the early 1800s before coming to Canada, they were both born in the late 1700s. Any chance of a connection. Charlene