Hello list, I have hit a brick wall and don't know where to go from here. I have posted this family to the list sometime back but I was only looking for any possible connections. This time I'm wondering if there is SKS that has more knowledge than I do that might be able to help? The 1841 census of Barrow Gurney, Somerset County, shows George STEVENS, a farmer, born in Somerset County, between about 1797 to 1801, and his wife Mary STEVENS, born Chew Magna, Somerset Co., between about 1800 -1803, and eight of their ten children (all born in Somerset): Sarah STEVENS, born about 1819 Samuel STEVENS, born Barrow Gurney, about 1819 George STEVENS, born Barrow Gurney, about 1825 Mary STEVENS, born about 1825 - 1825 William STEVENS, born Barrow Gurney, about 1828-1829 Matilda STEVENS, born about 1829 Thomas STEVENS, born Barrow Gurney, about 1830 James STEVENS, born Barrow Gurney, about 1829 - 1832 John STEVENS, born Barrow Gurney, about 1835 - 1836 Hester STEVENS, born Barrow Gurney, about 1837 - 1838 One of the problems is that the father George STEVENS is not living with his wife Mary in the 1851 or 1861 Barrow Gurney censuses yet she continued to say she was married, and I can not find a death for him or him living as a stray anywhere. I also can't find the father George's birth or baptism date or place in Somerset. I *think* his wife Mary's maiden name was Mary KING but I haven't been able to find her birth or baptism record, or their marriage record. Mary is not found in the 1871 or later censuses so I think she died between 1861 - 1871. I have searched Free BMD, ancestry.com, all the parish records for Somerset County that I can find for those years online, and the Somerset Marriages CD. Any help much appreciated. Linda in California