Dear List, My name is Carol LLOYD, I live in East Sussex and I am researching my paternal name of SHIRLEY. I have been on this list before but had no luck with any links to my family. I still keep coming back hoping to find possible connections with this name on the I.O.W. My GGrandfather was John Walter SHIRLEY Corporal Royal Artillery "away" on the 1881 and 1891Census, his wife Mary was Head of Household in Saltash, CON. My reason for joining this list is to try to discover why John and Mary's second child Henry James SHIRLEY was born 26th April 1879 and Christened at Sandown, I.O.W. a few months later in Oct 1879?? I have a copy of the Baptism record from the I.O.W. County Record Office, parents were: John and Mary SHIRLEY. Their first child Lucy SHIRLEY was born in Saltash, CON but christened on the I.O.W like her brother, I would love a copy of this Baptism too . I would appreciate any info to help me find the reason for this double christening, J.W. must have been based at a fort or some such place surely? Also hoping that John Walter SHIRLEY was born here too, as I can't find his birth in Cornwall. T.I.A. Regards, Carol