This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mason, Smith, Johnson, O'Loughlin, Ross, O'Shea or Shea, Butler, Hodgkins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VJIBAEB/28227.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for your information on the Smith family. A lot of those names do fit to the records I have found from the parish records in Malvern Link. I do not live local to Malvern Link in Worcestershire, but I am planning a train journey to Worcester soon to look at some more parish records that are held there for Malvern Link. I have so far four more churches to look through for records so I will be able to get more details then. The Smiths are distantly related to me, but thanks again for your help. My family are all catholics, I say this because it helps to determine which ancestors belong to my family and to save time with any confusion. For example, I thought I had a match with names and dates of some ancestors with someone else in Northern Ireland, but then we realised that the religion was different, mine were catholics and theirs were protestants in Ireland so it turned out that we were not related to each other.