JohnKay
Striker
Then the fun begins with great, great family if you look a bit further back and you discover links that head all over the place. My Paternal side & my Wife's Maternal side took us over to Ireland pre-census. The surnames were a dead giveaway, plus the fact slight changes at birth reg. & census entry had been made to get away from the feelings toward the Irish influx around late 1700s/early 1800s. My Mother & Father believed their descendants had come from Scotland, which they probably did as a stop off en-route from Ireland in the search for employment/income that led them to the NE after being employed in Cumberland ( I actually found & saw one place & unit a relative had worked in Cumb.). I'd possibly expect your surname to also lead to Ireland. I'll p.m. you the surnames
Yeah, I've done the Ireland thing in the 1800's and it's boody hard work. A census only has head of house then number of people, useless tbh when trying to go further back.