Thank you Jan, Christine and Ron for your suggestions re J J Waite. I delayed replying to you until I'd followed up all your ideas. Sadly, none has led me to the elusive John, but I still hope to find him and have since been in touch with another of his distant relatives who is waiting for some information, so fingers crossed this mystery will be solved in time. The Iles family is equally hard to find, but perhaps some scrap of information re the Waites could lead to the brick wall that hides them too! Again, many thanks and best wishes Marjorie