My " (grand)uncle" Walter Dennis (son of Della Bowen and William Dennis) lived in Newark on or near this Yorkshire and we visited him when I was little. He was the local sheriff early 1900's. I haven't yet figured out where he lived in Newark and I was too little to note details. Everybody else who remembers is dead. There might be one aunt who can remember but as people get older their memories are less accurate so far as I've seen. I was told old the wrong names for the husbands of Walter's sisters for example. I plan to go further in the land records to see what Walter owned but just haven't gotten to it yet. Those Wo Cty land records are bad for the eyes. Uncle Walter owned a fair amount of land but was swindled out of it by his nephew "so I was told". The nephew liked to drink and play bridge! ----- Original Message ----- From: Miller's Choice <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:49:56 -0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [LDR] Parker Selby/Yorkshire/Wm Furniss d. c1821 Thank you, Liz. The Newark environs is not an area in which I am at all familiar either in geography or the inhabitants. William Furniss must have moved over there because of his wife, as he inherited a portion of Double Purchase from his father, William, which he held on the 1783 tax list and sold in 1791, a year after he bought Yorkshire. Becky *************************************** QUESTIONS about POSTING GUIDELINES, SUBSCRIBING or UNSUBSCRIBING? Visit The Lower DelMarVa Roots Mailing List FAQ: http://www.tyaskin.com/handley/ldrfaq.htm ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message