I have forwarded my family tree research filtering the hints on Ancestry. Robert, the Marsett mole catcher in his later life who had farmed in the area all his life used to be my oldest known relative although I had a name for his father from a snippet in a perished register that we found in Kendal record office a number of years ago. His name was John. I knew little else about John. Hints from other tree makers have yielded some bonuses. One of which is Rupert who is the son of my cousin Suzanne, my uncle Bill's daughter.
His research, with citations has yielded Johns wife Elizabeth who was born in 1745. Further more I have also found from another tree maker John's mother and father. His father was another John, (1723) who married Mary Barrows (1716) she was 7 years older than John who was 18, she 25 years old when she gave birth to their son John.
My oldest known relatives now have the same names as my mother and father, John and Mary.
