Dear Roy Perhaps you can help me find my grandfather William Frank supposedly born in Stays (Staithes?) Yorkshire in 1851. I found one family in the area where mother and sibling were born in Staithes but there is a baby on that census who isn't him so unless they were very close in age it isn't his family. I have been too busy to do any research lately but should be able to get back into it soon. Yvonne Orr > > If anyone out there has Yorkshire ancestry, particularly, then I am > generally acknowledged to be one of the leading authorities on the county > (and PLEASE no-one ask "Where is Yorkshire" or I am likely to come over > there and thump you one!!!). However, I have lived for many years in the > south of England, just outside London, and am familiar with most of the > major London records offices. > > Surely there must be something I can help you with? I have offered before > but had little response. Or is it simply the fact that hardly anybody on > this list has managed to get their ancestry back to the UK yet? > > Roy Stockdill > Editor, The Journal of One-Name Studies > The Stockdill Family History Society (Guild of One-Name Studies, FedFHS) > STOCKDILL PREST YELLOW BOLTON WORSNOP > GIBSON MIDGLEY BRACEWELL SHACKLETON BRADLEY MOODY in Yorkshire North & > West Ridings > MEAD YOUNG in Somerset, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire > Web page of the Stockdill Family History Society:- > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock > ”Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you. > If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Canon Sydney Smith (scholar and > humorist 1771-1845) > > ==== NEWGEN Mailing List ==== > ROOTSWEB..............R.I.P.