Hello List, I am wondering if anyone can help me with these people? My gg grandparents were George Cann and Elizabeth Nokes of Hollidaysburg. They lived there in the late 1800s. They had many children, among them my g grandmother, Elmira. She was born in 1858. It seems Elizabeth was married to a Thomas Shinton before she married George. In our family there are equal documents showing that Elmira was a Cann and a Shinton. So, we don't know the real story of who her father was. I have never found mention of Thomas Shinton in the census. Yes, there is a one Thomas Shinton with a wife Elizabeth in Carbon Co., but they are not the right ones. I had also found reference in news items to George Cann, the robber. It was not my gg grandfather. But then I found this news article, HELD IN HEAVY BAIL George Shinton, alias George Cann, Harry Shay and "Hollidaysburg Slim" who was caught in an attempt to rob John Albright's shoe store in Hollidaysburg at 1 o'clock Wednesday morning was given a hearing before Justice of Peace Keagy Saturday morning on the charges of attempted burglary and horse stealing. He pleaded guilty to the second charge. He was held for court for the sum of $7,000 in default of which he was committed to jail. Cann's real name is George Shinton, aged 37 years, son of THOMAS SHINTON, a former resident of Hollidaysburg. He is a confirmed criminal and in many of his criminal exploitations he employed the cloak of hypocrisy, using the rosary to deceive the credulous. Last week he visited the Italian colony at the East Hollidaysburg improvement work clad in the habitments of a priest and exhibiting a sum of money from the many unsuspecting foreigners. ALTOONA MIRROR Monday, November 20, 1905 Can anyone tell me more about Thomas Shinton of Hollidaysburg? ANYTHING!! Thank you so much. Tomi _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/