Hi folks, Righto, thanks to Eric, I now have the Roman numerals sussed! I was transforming X as 10 and L as 50, and wondering why the L followed the X. But XL is 40 and LX is 60, which I guess I should have known because IV is 4 and VI is six. Anyway, to cut a long story short.... it works out like this:- Grave 44 Headstone Sacred to the memory of Andrew TETLOW of Skirden, Yeoman who died Oct 11 MDCCCXVIII (1818) aged LXXVIII (78) years Also Dinah his wife who died April 11 (should this be II e.g. 2) MDCCCXLI (1841) aged LXXXVI (86) years Also of Adam their son who died March XIV (14) MDCCCXLI (1841) aged XXVIII (28) years Also Robert TETLOW son of the above Andrew and Dinah died May XIV (14) MDCCCLXV (1865) Also Joseph TETLOW son of Andrew & Dinah died May IV (4) MDCCCLXX (1870) aged LXXII (72) years. Also Betty their daughter died February VII (7) MDCCCLXXIV (1874) aged LXXXI (81)years Also Mary TETLOW died April IX (9) MDCCCLXXVIII (1878) aged LIII (53) years. There is a discrepancy over the date that Joseph died, but Eric confrms that it was 1870 (as in the roman numeral version above) as opposed to the memorial in the church. Now then, this accounts for the ones mentioned above, and I can sort out Ann, the wife of Christopher Sanderson, who was another daughter of Andrew & Dinah. I'm still not sure where Ann, William, and their children; Robert, William, & Margaret, fit in. Nor can I relate William Standing-Tetlow, and his wife & son, to the rest of them. Regards Richard (the 'stuck in Nottingham' one) Richard Tetley wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've just had a go at working out the decimal equivalent of the dates in > my last posting that were in roman numerals, and it's fairly obvious > that somethings awry > snip-- Born in Sheffield, but currently in Nottingham UK. Family names:- ASHFORTH, CAVE, CHAMPION, HODGES, HOPE, JACKSON, NICHOLSON, SIMPSON, SLEE, TETLEY, WALKER, WESTOVER, WOOLLEN, WILLIAMS. Home Website: http://freespace.virgin.net/richard.tetley/