Totally off topic so I do not want to start a thread. For those in the UK who have been watching "Lark rise to Candleford" you may already know that the original books were based on the real life of Flora Thompson. You can find her with her family and others in "Lark Rise" on the censuses on Ancestry.co.uk by searching for Flora Timms, born Oxfordshire, 1876. Her name in the books was changed to Laura Timmins, with her fictional parents Robert and Emma; they were in real life Albert and Emma, and he was a stonemason as per the stories. The hamlet is Juniper, now known as Juniper Hill, with Candleford being Fringford, where Flora (Laura) worked in the Post Office. Incidentally, I have Timms ancestors from Nottingham and there was a connection with Timms from Ashby de la Zouch - for instance a certain Joseph Timms was a burgess of Nottingham, having been an apprentice there, but on becoming a master baker, he returned to Ashby, but was still allowed to vote in Nottingham elections. I went through the exercise of compiling Timms families in Ashby to try and find my ancestor Atkins Timms and found that one family had their children variously christened as Tims, Timms, Timmons, and Timmins. This despite the fact that this was the one family, and the vicar and parish clerk were the same throughout this period. It just shows how you have to check and double check. Had I just accepted the IGI then I would not have put all the various children in the same family. It turned out that my Atkin(s) Timms came from Smisby, just over the border in Derbyshire, but obviously somehow connected in the past to all the other Timms in Ashby. Brian Binns