On 10/12/09 11:53, "NEGenealogy@aol.com" <NEGenealogy@aol.com> wrote: > > If only you had asked this question yesterday! Thanks Geoff One of those oft made comments of the family historian.... We've had great support from Anthea Laing over the years and I'm pleased to say that a friend who is working on this same family was in the Gateshead library last week and he said " While up North, I visited the family research centre in Gateshead. They have experienced helpers in attendance and I made them privy to our search for Henrietta and James. They racked their brains for quite a while but could not come up with a solution. What a lovely bunch of people researchers are!" He had a challenging time as a time consuming search in pre 1858 wills at Whithorn came up with nothing for a known will where the death was in 1855 and we have a partial extract stating 'will was proved on the 24th February 1855' The 'search' is our struggle to find Henrietta (nee FENWICK) and James GARDNER in the 1891 Census with daughter Alice May age 5 born in Newcastle. Yesterday we were able to consult the Wills Calendar in Carlisle Castle and found out that they were in 'Belvedere Street Heaton' in January 1888 (Admon for her mothers estate). So now plan to check addresses in Heaton in 1891. Robin