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That's very kind of you. The people in question would have been late greatuncle, late great aunt and very old living aunt but I don't want to upset anyone by pestering them just to fill some gaps in my FamilyTreeMaker tree which goes right back to 1564. Because I don't want to tread on any toes I don't want to ask a lot of questions and only know surnames and locations. I remember my mother's concern that she could never pin down from her Scottish mother where she (my mother) was born and got all manner of places where the family had been billeted (grandfather was in Gordon Highlanders and had been in Aberdeen, India, Cork, Colchester and Aldershot, all of which, except India, were told to my mother as her unrecorded birthplace !!). So, I'm stuck with McBeth (or Macbeth), Hudson, Leith and Bradford. The first record of my mother that I've been able to find was Colchester Barracks in the 1911 census where she was said to be 7 months, born York. Unnnh !!

Hi Dorrie, thanks for a very helpful and informative contribution. I'll give it a try !! Keep safe, Barry

Many thanks. The enquiry is not so urgent/vital that I want to venture into Scotlandspeple again just yet. Thanks, too, for the link which tends to prove that Scotland's genealogical fervour doesn't match that of England. Barry

Thanks for your response. I'm fairly sure you're right as burial records for the earliest Mellings I've been able to find show they were buried in 1965 in RC Antofagasta, Defunciones which I believe were associated with the potash mining business.
I could be quite wrong but any info is welcome. Regards, Barry
P.S. I've seen some of those cemetaries and they are quite a chilling sight.

Hi Tito, according to Eduardo's descendants, he was a racing driver and possibly killed during a race. But none are old enough to have known him. Could you discover anything on this ?
Gracias,
Barry