I found James Turner of Hare House Upper Bradnop 18th Century. You can buy Local History books on line, try searching Google Books or World Books, you can also ask for a search by Stafford Records Office, they do charge though. HTH Linda. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2 -----Original Message----- From: "PMR" <cliveden@acenet.net.au> Sender: staffordshire-bounces@rootsweb.com Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:20:56 To: STAFFORDSHIRE Mailing List<STAFFORDSHIRE-L@rootsweb.com> Reply-To: staffordshire@rootsweb.com Subject: [STAFFORDSHIRE] 'Mr' Turner of Bradnop Greetings Listers I am descended from James TURNER (baptised in Leek on 25 May 1688), who, on his marriage to Elizabeth WHILLOCK (of Ford) in All Saints' Grindon on 6 Feb 1713(4) - or maybe 1712(3) - was described as 'Mr James TURNER jnr of Bradnop'. His father was Mr James TURNER Snr. I have been led to believe that for a man to be designated 'Mr' in those times indicated at least minor importance - possibly the equivalent of Esq after the name? My first question is this: can anyone enlighten me on the use of 'Mr' in the early 18th century please? Secondly, where can I found some info about Bradnop at that time, please? I've tried the Internet but most 'hits' are for houses for sale there! I'd be interested in finding out if 'my' TURNERs had a named property in the area or if the designation of 'Mr' had another connotation. I'd also like to hear from anyone who is descended from either James - snr had 11 children, 8 of whom may have had descendants; jnr had 7, 6 of whom may have had descendants. The remaining children in each case died very young. Many thanks Pam Beaudesert, Queensland, Australia ****************************** ATTENTION TO ALL:- When replying please remove the details that do not apply to your mail and change the SUBJECT LINE for best useage of ARCHIVED MATERIALS. ****************************** PLEASE keep your Anti-Virus and Anti-Malware software up to date. BEWARE of messages making it onto the List with a single URL. NEVER follow the link. It's usually from an infected source! ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to STAFFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message