Hi all Seeing things are so quiet I thought I'd re-post my interests - been a very long time since I did that. Lots of newbies around these days. Sorry, have to cross-post on lists. Just simply delete the extras. Border counties, etc: BAMBER, Liverpool (shipyard and/or lumber family. Very frustrating trying to find descendants of this lot!) BATHER, Oswestry district, Shropshire (corn flour millers, etc.) BATHO, Ellesmere, Shropshire (farmers) BAYLEY, Malpas, Cheshire 1881 (tailors) BOFFEY, Shropshire ALL, RADNOR ALL (builder/tavern licensee in Oswestry - son in RADNOR was a labourer) BROWN, Ellesmere, Shropshire (grocer) BUFFEY, Lancashire CURETON, Ellesmere, Shropshire DAVIES, Ellesmere and Ford, Shropshire (grocers/post office) DEAN/E, possibly Weston Lullingfields or Myddle, Shropshire HANKEY, Golborne, Lowton, or Warrington, in Lancs. (farmers/railway engineer) HASSALL, Ellesmere, Shropshire ALL HAYWARD, Shropshire ALL HIGGINSON, Ellesmere, Shropshire ALL HUDSON, Ellesmere, Shropshire (tailors) HUGHES, Oswestry, Shropshire & Hastings, Sussex (solicitor) JOHNSON, Oswestry, Shropshire (farmers) JONES, Marford & Hosely, near Gresford, Denbighshire JONES, Llantysilio, Wrexham, Denbighshire JONES, Annie Louisa & Evan, Rhosesmor/Coed-y-cra/Halkyn, possibly Northop also for baptisms & marriage records - Annie Louisa Jones, nee Parry 1866-1919, Evan Jones 1866-1932. buried at Halkyn. LEWIS Llansantffraid-y-mechain, Denbighshire, or is it Montgomery, ha? LLOYD, Gresford, Denbighshire MASON, Ellesmere, Shropshire MORGAN, Ellesmere, Shropshire MORRIS, William Tannatt, & William Harold Tannatt, Whittington/Sweeney/Oswestry, Shropshire, also Maestanyglwyden Farm Denbighshire where I have brand new living relatives! MINSHALL, Oswestry, Shropshire MULLINEX, Ellesmere, Shropshire - also variations of that name. PARRY, Ellesmere, Shropshire PARRY, Rhosesmor/Caerfallwch/Halkyn/Northop Flintshire PATE/PEAT/PEATE, Pool Quay, Llanymynech, also at Alberbury, Oswestry, Maesbury, Morda in Shropshire. Pate & Peate in Gresford, Chirk and Wrexham in 1700s. Also recently found at Montford and Shrewsbury 1700s. POYNTON, Wrexham, Denbighshire, also Liverpool from 1890, possibly also Cheshire after 1910. PRICE, Gresford from 1850s & Erbistock Denbighshire from 1824, Ellesmere Shropshire from 1700s, Penley Flintshire from 1830s PUGH, Oswestry, Shropshire only REEVES, Shropshire ROBERTS, Llanelidan and Llantysilio Denbighshire RODENHURST, Shropshire ROGERS, Buttington & Welshpool, MGY 1799-1881, moved to Wrexham DEN; Thomas, occupation weaver, said to have gone to Canada circa 1890. STANLEY, Warrington, Lancs TAYLOR, Warrington, Golborne, Lowton, in Lancs TEMPLE, Aberlady, Midlothian, Scotland THOMAS, Gresford, Denbighshire, possibly Wrexham also. WARBURTON, Ellesmere, Shropshire WARD, Llanyblodwell, Montgomeryshire WHETTALL, Forden, Montgomeryshire 1720+ Also, possibly Davies, descended down from Rogers of Wrexham, "hiding" somewhere in Johnstown below WREXHAM. London area, mainly Westminster and Chelsea: BENNETT, MARKS, MAQUIRE, HANSON, CLEARER, SLADE. I'm all puffed out now! And to think I originally started only with Price, Rogers, Peate, Jones and Bennett! What a long and winding, and wonderful journey this has been. I can only hope that all other listers are so fortunate. Cheerio Graham Melbourne, Australia P.S. Here's "As time goes by." You must remember this a kiss is still a kiss of that you can't deny the fundamental things apply as time goes by moonlight and love songs never out of date hearts full of passion jealousy and hate woman needs man and man must have his mate that no one can deny! Not sure if I got it completely right but isn't this the very bottom line of things that we sometimes miss when we are researching? Our ancestors were not mere figures in time, they were living people with all the goodness, faults and imperfections that we see today, and some of them, well... how they must have loved! I guess this is why I, and most other researchers, seek to flesh out the bones and try to find out more about them, even if it means delving into court records, etc. But, really, wills do reveal a lot. Alhough, I would never pass on in print anything that appears to be very naughty. Better to leave that where it is, in the past, though some chuckles arise from reading these things, e.g. one daughter given all the crockery and silver in a will, then in a codicil it is taken away (mother probably didn't like the boy she was going with at the time) and then in years to come, in another codicil it is all given back! Passions! Yes, plenty of them. It all helps to round out our ancestors character for us.