Hoping for a bit of help padding out my tree, and perhaps a little help as to where to look next.

I traced back my tree back to a marriage between Joseph Lancaster and Mary Wilson on 10 Jan 1781 in Greystoke, Cumberland.

From what I could tell from the records they had 6 children, Joseph, John, Thomas, Sarah, William Wilson and my decendant (the youngest) Isaac.

Isaac married a Jane Spark on 2 May 1818 in Flimby and had children Thomas (1819), Joseph (1821) (my decendant) and Mary Ann (1823) who I believe married a Thomas Brown on 22 Feb 1845 in Deaham. There is also a suggestion of a 4th child Elizabeth born in 1829 from the 1821 census. However Isaac looks like he died sometime either November or December 1823

Joseph married I believe a Jane Walker on 25 Feb 1843 in Parish of Dearham, and had 2 Children who survived, my decendant William (1857) and Jane (1847) Later married a John Rawlings. With the suggestion per the 1851 census of 2 other children, presumed died.

William married Sarah Liddle from Spittal Tongues in 1880.

From that point I have very accurate details of children and families from the direct line.

What I really am after is,

1. Where was the First Joseph married in 1781 was from, I searched all the parish records in Cumberland without sucess for his birth, and came up with nothing.

2. Isaac who died in 1823, did not show any further info on the parish death record, but I know he was a miner, probably working at Flimby mine. Perhaps he was in a mining accident, but I can't find any records of anything like that.

3. Does anyone share a common decendant with any of the above and maybe we can pool information?

Cheers in advance.