Hello listers I have just joined the list in hopes that I may get some help. My name is Pauline and I live in Utah, USA (Just south of Salt Lake City) my grandfather came from Lancashire and I am researching the names Ramsbottom, Pilkington and Goode. My great grandmother Lydia Hannah Goode married a James Pilkington December qut 1887 in Manchester. He died in 1888 in Manchester. She then Married William Ramsbottom 1893 in Manchester; but not before she had 3 children to him. My grandfather was born there in 1890. She then moved to Middlesbrough, Yorkshire and married Joseph Cordy/Cody and had 4 more children to him. I am having a terrible time trying to trace William Ramsbottom who was my grandfather's father. According to the marriage record Lydia and William were married in St Michael's church Manchester. June 13, 1893. He was a bachelor age 36 his father was William Ramsbottom, a dyer. If anyone has any ideas on how I can trace him back I would be ever so grateful. There are so many William Ramsbottom's born at that time, and I have no idea what his mother's name was, or even if he was born in Manchester. Any ideas would be appreciated...... Don't you hate these brick walls? Pauline