Hi again Bec
Thanks for your reply - The system won't let me answer your message - it comes up with 'An error has occured. You are not allowed to send personal messages, or your personal message limit has been exceeded!' Can't have exceeded since I haven't used it before!!! So that's why I am replying on here.
Anyway, I am afraid it's a different JSR. All the comments below about Hartlepool and St Hilda's distracted me form your Whitby connection.
My grandfather was from Hartlepoola nd he and all his family before him was baptised at St Hilda's. Indeed it seems that his family kept St H's in business as they were all baptised, married and buried there until the end of the 19th century.
I have traced a lot of them through GenesReunited and, as you say, there are so many Robsons and Snowdons it's quite overwhelming. The use of the mother's maiden name as a boy's second name is also frequent so there seems to be a number of John Snowdon Robsons. In fact it was was my grandfather's grandfather b1828 who had been named after his mother, Eleanor Snowdon b1805 and my grandfather was just named after him. Another family name used like that was Fewster which was given to my great grandfather and to my father.
So sorry - not the same one but clearly connected - some sort of cousins. They were large families so not surprising they spread out.
Hope this is of some interest although not what you were hoping for.
T
