Hello Everyone, I had to share a letter I received yesterday. It is from Anne (Jobe) Bamford of North Lancashire, England She is working on her JOBE line over there and had been following my site and uses it frequently. Here is some of her line, I have asked she send me what she has further back. Excerpt: I am of the JOBE family in England.I have traced my JOBE family back to 1850 in Newcastle, England. The number of Jobe and its variants families in England in 1850 is very small , not just in Newcastle but the whole of England. This leaves me to believe that the JOBE family has moved to England from another Country. I have traced back to Nicholas William JOBE born 1858 at Byker, Newcastle Upon Tyne Annie wife born 1858 at Byker, Newcsatle Upon Tyne Thomas son born 1878 " " " " William son born 1880 " " " " Martin son born 1882 " " " " George son born 1884 " " " " Maggie dau born 1889 " " " " David son born 1891 " " " " James son born 1895 " " " " Charles son born 1898 " " " " Isabella dau born 1900 " " " " Do you have records in the United States which may show a departure from there of a JOBE arriving in North East England. prior to 1850? At this time, apart from the North East, there was only one other family in England called JOBE and that was in the North West. End of Excerpt I wrote and told her of our line where Andrew Sr was born and when they left England and came to America and that we do know that at one time Andrew JR went back to England for his education but how long he was there we do not know. And it is very possible that some of the later descendants went back to England because they were unhappy here. I told her our line became Quakers here and were not well liked and many of them became Baptists in order to live and get along in peace. Has anyone out there ran across any records where a JOBE left here and went back to England? Please if you have any information contact me. We finally have a contact in England and we just might be able to find out more about our line and we can help her in return. She might be able to find documents for us as well. Freida Wells [email protected] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard