From: "Ned Gibbs" <ndgibbs15@hotmail.com> > Please forgive me if I don't post thei correctly as I am very New to > finding ancestors in England Also are their any genealogist one can > pay that are reasonable and good ? Do you know what the going rate is? > > I am looking for > William Nowell born 31 July 1824 Born in Darlington Yorkshire > England > and married Ruth Dawson 1949 Huddersfield is where they registered > according to book XXII page 230 that I found then listed in on > ancestry's marriages The only other info I have on either of them is > that he died in Hallsvilles , Boone County, Missouri USA I don't know > when they left > > England or anything about their parents or when she died > I don't know anything about Ruth Dawson > any help out there? > Thank You for any help you can give > > Debbie > Newbury Park California USA> I am a professional genealogist and I will tell you for no charge that Darlington is NOT in Yorkshire! It is in the adjoining county of County Durham. There is a rootsweb mailing list for Co Durham and probably one for Darlington. I also think you mean that the marriage at Huddersfield was in 1849, don't you? At least, the potential marriage appears at FreeBMD in the March quarter of 1849 (I say potential because, of course, there are other names on the same page). I should also tell you that Dawson is an extremely common name around the Huddersfield area, assuming the marriage was in the bride's parish. I cannot find them in the 1851 census, which suggests they may have emigrated soon after the marriage. However, if you check out the 1841 census there are THREE Ruth Dawsons born about the right time at Almondbury (in 1827, 1828 and 1830) to have been the one married at Huddersfield in 1849. Almondbury is a large adjoining parish to Huddersfield and your Ruth Dawson could have been any one of them, since Almondbury came within Huddersfield Registration District. There was another Ruth Dawson born at Huddersfield in 1839 but she would have been too young. However, since you have the precise reference of her marriage, the obvious thing to do is buy the certificate which will at least tell you who her father was. Hopefully, she will turn out to be one of the three in the census of 1841. None of this requires you to spend money on hiring a professional researcher, only for the time being seven pounds on the marriage certificate. You can order it online from the GRO for England & Wales. -- Roy Stockdill Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE