To All You Lovely Listers, many thanks for all your suggestions, too many to reply individually but again thank you, once I've gone through everything & found out anything on my relative George Smith, I will let you all know. Regards John Clark PS My family name Clark comes from outside Christchurch, Dorset, at a place called Purewell. Some of the family stayed, some moved on to Weymouth, Dorset, & had children on the way. I'm from the ones who moved on, & then one moved up a bit, to Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. Me I'm a Cheltonian but still a Clark.