Dear All During my snooping around old markets, bookstalls, antiquarian bookshops over the past few years I have managed to pick up some useful old publications, including Boys' Own Paper 1890, Chambers's (sic) Journal 1893, Pleasant Times 1860, Glimpses of Welsh Life & Character 1893, etc. Today I stumbled upon another find and snapped it up quickly. It is a years supply, fully bound of the Boys' Empire League weekly magazine 1901, as big as an old pulpit bible! Just leafing through it I noticed a list of members of the Boys' Empire League as at January 19, 1901. There are too many names to list here and they are of all counties and "far away places", but one in particular took my attention, because there is someone on this list (Shropshire Plus) who is researching that fairly uncommon name: It was a boy listed as BROOMHALL, H.A. Liverpool. (Peter Hope, are you looking at this?) I will give some of the other names from counties close by, as there won't be too many: Birchall, W.a., Manchester - Bryan, Tom, Manchester - Blackwell A, Birmingham - Bedford, Jas., Liverpool - Bevan Jno, Swansea - Brant, A.S. Cardiff - France, R.J., Birmingham - Fay, R.V., Stoke Newington - Grosvenor, S.L., Turnstall, Stoke-on-Trent - Gibson A.L. Newcastle-on-Tyne - Genders, Jno, Manchester - Glennon, E, Manchester - Gibson, A.L., Newcastle-on-Tyne - Gayner, R.H. Birkenhead - Hincks, F.H., Seaforth, Liverpool - Hampton, T., Stone, Staff - Hetherington, E.J., Newcastle-on-Tyne - Harding, H., Cardiff - Hammersley, W., Walsall - Hughes, A., Liverpool - Jones, Thos, Kensington, Liverpool - Jones, R.N., Wellington, Salop - Jones, J.E., Carmarthen - Jones, David, Carmarthen - Kaye, H.W. Blackpool - Lucase, S.B., Liverpool - Lunge, F., Liverpool - Mayce, A., Liverpool - Morgan, H.G., Liverpool - Maylie, H., Manchester - Mojer, G.A., Tranmere, Cheshire - Nicholson, C.J., Newcastle-on-Tyne - Nowell, L.., Liverpool - Numby, W.G., Manchester - Orme, G., Southport - Owen, Alf., St. Helens, Lancs - Pugh A.A., Liscard, Cheshire - Pope, L., Newcastle-on-Tyne - Parkinson J. (jnr.) Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancs - Prosser, H., Newcastle-on-Tyne - Roberts, R., Wrexham - Richardson, S.E., Newcastle-on-Tyne - Skelmardine, W.D., Hale, Cheshire - Smeldey, J., Sheffield - Townley, B., Cardiff - Wood, Chas, Manchester - Watson, G.S., Newcaswtle-on-Tyne - Warren, F., Cheadle - Young, F., Newcastle-on-Tyne Sometime next year I may get around to typing out the whole list, but it would take a lot of time. Meanwhile, check over the above. They will all appear on the 1901 census coming up. Interesting that even up to 1901 they still put down John as Jno! P.S. I have scanned the cover into my computer (thanks to my new Canon 660U) - it is green with orange lettering, and also black lettering and depicts what would appear to be Light Horse plunging on horseback through water with probably the Union Jack flying high. If anyone would like a copy off-list, let me know, and it will be in the most accepted .jpg format. If you have the facilities, you could blow it up into a lovely A4 or larger wall hanging. Frame it, and give it to someone for Christmas, perhaps!!! caio Graham Melbourne, Oz