I would like to ask Horace Frederick READ, youngest son of my G. G. Grandmother, Elizabeth ( GODFREY) and her second husband John Read when he emigrated to America and did he settle there permanently? Did he find news of his half brother Walter Godfrey ROSS? I have been unable to find anything much about Horace besides his birth registration in the Q2 1873 at Holborn, MSX; his Baptism on 21 Aug 1881 at St. George the Martyr, Holborn, which stated his birth date was 1 May 1873 and the 1881 census, where he is listed as Horace ROSS son, aged 7, with his Mother Elizabeth READ widow, 49 and his half brother Walter ROSS, bookseller Assistant aged 15. living at 16 Hart St. St. George Bloomsbury. His Mother Elizabeth died in 1888. Horace had gone to Buffalo New York by 1895, but I cannot find him on any passenger lists as yet. He had another half brother, Arthur Joseph ROSS who went to Buffalo New York, USA and married there in 1889. >From the web page of Helen Oxford Harris in Australia, for finding missing people in uncatalogued and unindexed Police Correspondence files at the Public Record Office in Victoria Aust, I found reference to Horace via a letter he had written in 1895 from Buffalo New York, USA. He was searching for his half brother Walter Godfrey ROSS, who had left England approximately 12 years earlier. If anyone has these people in their tree or has come across them in their research, I wold love to hear from you. Happy New Year to everyone. Nan Bailey from Oz