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thanks for your help - not sure what Cop parish or IAN-opc is! is it possible to search parish records online? - distance from where I live prevents me from visiting the area.

As hope fades of getting any further you end up clutching at straws - I am hoping the library will come across an old newspaper article on a group of youngsters emigrating - it must have been big news locally then? :-S

Link to LancsOPC

http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Search/indexp.html

Not big news I'm afraid - my ancestors in Cartmel (village in Lancashire) hopped back and forth to Canada around that time. Some went to Aus, others to NZ and 3 that I know of to South Africa - I'm still trying to trace my great aunt who never came back, but that is another thread!

What I'm really trying to say is our ancestors were far more mobile and adventurous than we think, and sorry for the abbreviations. Mike has given you an invaluable link to Lancashire parish records - although you need to check the coverage as it is limited.

(Meols Cop was the parish Meols Hall and estate was in)

Good luck

just wanted to say thank you to everyone for your help - I will continue to dig about to see if I can find anything more ;-)