Hello All, Thank you Cara for setting out my request so much better than I manage to. Thank you Peggy. Yes indeed you have sent on the same info before but, as yet their links are not proven. I tried the local FHC after plucking up courage to face the old dragon (male) in charge and incredibly he told me the same thing as he had many years before "Not enough info to start searching"!! No suggestion of where I might find such info. Upon asking what records might be of assistance in my search I was told I must have a specific name or family to send for a fiche. "No use asking for census records without a name or address" As you have already searched some census for me I asked about the few family names I have and the three districts relevant to them, Red Cross, Oughill, and Kilbride and what records would be available for those places. Again I was fobbed off. Fortunately I am going to Nelson next week and will visit their FHC where i have received willing help before but with negative results. If, as that private email to you Cara suggests, "Thomas and Mary ran a small farm down the road from the Kilbride cemetery, on the edge of the Shelton Abbey estate" I wonder if Glenbrook House could once have been part of that estate and either been sold or rented out? I do wish your mystery correspondent would contact you again with more details. Thank you Gail for your Aylesbury site. Anona