Hello All
Sorry for the delays - I've not been able to get back in to my account to respond, it turns out I was using an email address with a typo in it.
Again sorry.
Thanks to everyone for their Reponses:
I am trying to get 9N1 serial when the start & stop have been taken into account.
I've done some searching and found a few more suggestions that I am going to work through and piece together to get this working.
The library does not support it but I've found some suggestions that after using the library to initialise the serial, I can then set a flag to change serial to 9 bits. After the serial has indicated there is data there is a method of reading the 9th bit, which needs to be done before reading the 8but byte from the serial otherwise the 9th bit gets reset.
I'm going to work in this as an idea and see if I can get it working.