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I came accross this web site on Longtown in Cumberland and it is awesome. Lots of info extracted from old papers and much much more. Lots of names and family information gleaned from court cases, hatched matched and despatched, and inquests. Also some indepth details of a couple of murders. Even if you don't have ancesters from there it is well worth a visit. I have been browsing it for the past three hours and I am well impressed. http://mysite.wanadoomembers.*co.*uk/longtown19/deathsinquest.htm If this address dosn't work just google Longtown Just one extract from a very long list: July 17th 1830 CJ Quarter Sessions Appeal against the removal of a pauper and her 6 children from Arthuret to Kirklinton. 'This was a curious case. The pauper, Ann Taylor, and six children had been removed from Longtown in the parish of Arthuret to Kirklinton, and against that order the latter appealed on the ground that the children were illegitimate, though the husband of the woman was living... The pauper was a married woman, but the husband Richard Taylor, did not live with her: yet she had borne six children, and it was alleged by the appellants that they were the offspring of Richard Irving, with whom there was no doubt she cohabited. But as the husband lived within such distance of the wife as to render his access to her not only possible, but very probable, would that co-habitation bastardise the offspring? If they were illegitimate, the order of removal must be quashed' Witnesses: Edward Graham, Westlinton. Geo Finlay: stated that he knew Richard Taylor and his wife Ann Bell, and that Taylor lived occasionally with his wife, although she had a second husband, Richard Irving. Elizabeth Finlay, wife of the above. Richard Irving, second husband of Ann Bell 'It is 15 years since we were married - we have six children, who had been removed with their mother - I did not know she was married to another man. I am a weaver, and have been at home ever since. Between meal times, I can't say what she might do'. Francis Forster - produced a copy of the Arthuret parish register, to prove the children were registered in the name of Irving. Another unnamed witness said he had been at the marriage of Irving and Bell at Annan. The bench quashed the order of removal and confirmed it as to the wife, thus establishing the illegitimacy of the children. Many articles regarding bigamous marriages and marriages at Gretna green. Have a good read and enjoy. You may find some reference to your rellies. Regards gill

forgot to say remove the *'s. Regards Gill