[Margaret Pilkington]

Thankyou Rowlf for the information. I have just spent a mindboggling morning tracing ancestors of my paternal grandfather. It was interesting and I have gone back to the 1860s and found branches of the family no-one knew anything about.
I have it all written down and I am going to enlighten my mother.
I might just have a go at her side of the family over the weekend.
I only gave them my e-mail address(and a shadow one at that...where most of my spam goes) so it has been a good diversion on a day too miserable to do much else.