True enough, Mary: but mother was in Sowerby rather than Bradford or Holbeck, so still no validation for Sally's list of names. But it's a point definitely worth remembering. Many thanks! Maggie -----Original Message----- From: Mary Paton <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:17 Subject: Re: [WRY] York records > immediately went to live in Newcastle, so I'd expect births to be there. Hi Maggie, Not everyone did this but it seems to me to have been very common for young mothers to go home to their own mother for the arrival of their first babies - then subsequent children usually born in the new home area. Just a thought that your couple could have done that. My g-grandmother was born in St Bees because her mother's mother lived there - but the rest of the family was born in Upper or Nether Poppleton. Best wishes, Mary Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message