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Hi John, Many thanks for your suggestion about river pollution. It may not be of much use, but in the 1881 census the majority of Skimming(s) in mainland Britain were in the south-west quarter of Scotland. It looks as though they may have come from Ireland. Sadly, I do not have census data for Ireland, but unless James came from somewhere like Wanlockhead/Leadhills, it looks as though you should seek him there. Mike -------------------------------- Mike Gill President and Recorder of the NORTHERN MINE RESEARCH SOCIETY Britain's foremost mining history society at:- http://www.exeter.ac.uk/~RBurt/MinHistNet/NMRS.html -------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%