Hi Lianne......many thanks for this......however, he is not my man as my guy died when struck by lightening when he was only 30 years old. I appreciate the lookup! mary lou In a message dated 1/26/2012 5:34:42 P.M. Mountain Standard Time, lfenimore@columbus.rr.com writes: Mary Lou, He was born to John [1811-1888] and Elizabeth Coates, date is 'about,' he married Alice and had a number of children including an Oliver and Alfred between 1863-1878, and was living in Bradford in 1881. It is mostly from the census and FreeBMD, no parish records or exact dates, etc. Oliver came to Massachusetts. Please email me off list if you want more. Liane Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ 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 WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message