This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: iveson/ivison Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/5538/mFB.2ACE/1303.1534.1551.1556.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Elise I have nothing very concrete to offer either I'm afraid. I don't have a Thomas Iveson yet. I have two John Ivesons but their ages don't match up with being old enough to be yours. One was the son of Robert and born in 1815 in Skirpenbeck. The second was the son of Francis (a tailor) and grandson of Robert, born in 1837 in Seaton Ross. I've looked on the 1851 census and there is a Jonathan Iveson born in Pocklington in 1834 (so about the right age) who was an apprentice tailor to John Watts a journeyman (sort of freelance) tailor. So, if the Jonathan you've got turns out not to be the right one maybe he's a contender. I've also found a John Iveson born in Pocklington in 1799, he was a labourer on the 1851(that's about the right age to be the father of Thomas). Pocklington is not very far from the villages of Skirpenbeck and Seaton Ross and people seemed to move from village/town to village/town almost every generation so there may still be a connection further back ! - more digging needed yet, maybe the 1841 census will help though I haven't heard anything about it on Ancestry.co yet. I've put my tree on www.genesreunited.co.uk, if you subscribe to that send me a message via their site and I can give you access to it in the reply. Sandra