Pauline Thanks for your response. Known details are as follows William Morris Woodman (Sawyer Master on my grandfather's birth certificate, 1898). Wife Eva Annie Bragg. On 1901 Census he seems to have dropped William and appears as Morris Woodman (Mill Sawyer), born Littleton Drew, date of birth would be abt. I863. I've also found a Maurice Woodman age 17 born Littleton, Wiltshire on the 1881 Census. Are Littleton and Littleton Drew one and the same place? Apart from that, I have absolutely no other information as yet.Would appreciate any help/advice anyone can give me about how to go about finding out parents names. Carole Mariencourt (Woodman) Dunkirk France