Slowhands,

Many thanks - that info has scotched the thought that MY James GOODE is the person I cannot find!!!!

Certainly my James GOODE who married Emily Symonds in 1869 and had one child, James, in Nov '71 and apparently another in '79 named Lewis.

As Emily was a widow in 1881 Census he must have died twixt 1878 and 1881.

Any ideas?

Brian