Thanks, Jeffery, that's been the most helpful to me yet of all of them. I can actually put names in place to help understand the relationship. An aside: I've held a private theory (no proof at all) that my DAVlIDSON's may have come out of Roxburghshire. I know the name is strong in Scotland. My GGGF, Philip Davidson, was born in Irthington. Which I understand isn't far from the border. I have know information on his father George; the only thing I know about his other is she was born in Walton, also not far from the border. Are there quite a proliferation of DAVIDSON's in ROX? As I say, it's a private theory and nothing I've tried to pursue. Thanks for the other info. Judy Dawe