This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Severs Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lBHBAIB/72.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Steve, Thanks for that info. Unfortunetly, I didn't see the name I was looking for. My family is predominately "Ewen" & "Rhodes", but my great-great grandmother was said to be a "Severs". Her name was Ann, born in 1838, in Kendal. She married William Rhodes and had abt 8 children. William was a draper in Kendal. I beleive that she died abt 1895. They lived, at that time, in a house called "Thorns" in Underbarrow, from what I understand it's now a guesthouse called "Greenriggs". In the 1881 census there was a Pearson family living at Thorns. So my family must have moved to the house in the late 1880's, because my grand father was born there. Would you know anything about an Ann Severs? or even Rhodes for that matter? Thank you so much for your help! I'm hoping someday I'll get over to Kendal to research all of these things! Nancy.