This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.reid/3758/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Looking for connections with my g.grandfather James REID and his own father Alexander REID both believed to have been born in Dublin. They would have come over to Liverpool between 1860 and 1864. Alexander REID was a cooper by trade and his son, James REID was a mariner. James married Elizabeth SMITH (also believed b. in Ireland around 1852) and her father was Thomas SMITH labourer. Both families lived in off the Scotland Road area of Liverpool. James and Elizabeth's son Christopher (my grandfather) was born in Liverpool in 1872, after that both his parents seem to have disappeared and Christopher is recorded as living with his uncle and aunt = Charles and Mary LUCAS in the 1881 census. The Lucas's were both born in Ireland. Can anybody help please.