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Thank you both for such quick replies!  Jacob most likely was at Kingston due to ill health since his death certificate cites a diseased lung.  I still wonder at the conditions within and will do some more reading.  Again my thanks!  Dawn

I am so excited!  I began my  "family history" project a year ago searching and hoping for a connection to my grandfather's family in England.  Admittedly  I was beginning to despair of finding someone (ANYONE) who was related.  Over the weekend I visited the SIT board to check possibilities.  There she was PARKER and FRYER in the same vicinity as mine.  Fryer and Parker are common names so I figured it would be another dead end.  The next day a reply came and I could not believe it- a CONNECTION!  Turns out her husband's gg-grandfather's is my g-grandmother Lydia's brother.  Apparently we're 3 cousins, 1 removed or so it seems.  We knew nothing of Lydia's family except for recent discoveries in census', etc.   Our FRYER cousins in England knew of Lydia's marriage to Reuben Tricker but didn't have much about her family.  In my excited state I fired off what must have been a 20 page email regarding Lydia's descendants here in the US and Canada; then worried for the next 24 hours that my email might have frightened her off.  Thankfully it did not!   In only 3 days we've exchanged photos, documents, heirloom letters and more.  I am still walking on cloud nine!

Thank you very much Rootschat! 

Finally!  I have at least located someone who was at some point and hopefully still is researching my TRICKER line.  While it was not on Rootchat itself that I found their information, the link that gives me such hope was from a Rootschat post!!!   YIPPEE!  I just hope that the connection is not so old that they've changed email's twice or more or given up entirely!   It certainly is exciting at finally having at least chance to exchange information with this elusive family of mine.  Thanks you very much Rootschatters!!

I have also run into problems with my TRICKER surname.  I have found it as TUCKER/TRECKER/FRICKER, etc.  The most frustrating aspect is when you do find a mistake and submit a correction for one person in the household it doesn't apply to all members.  You have to go back and enter a correction for each member.  Sometimes it does feel as if Ancestry could care less about quality and service after all, while not the only game in town, they are the largest!