I've just taken advantage of a chance to trawl through the London 1851 census indexes. Here are the folio references for all the instances of ALLCHIN and ORCHIN that I found - the piece numbers covered are HO 107 1466-1502 and 1507-1515. Hope these folio references are of use to someone. Let me know if there are any that I've missed. I'd be interested in receiving full details from the census if anyone happens to have any of them on file! Kensington Town 1468 Allchin 840 Chelsea South 1472 Alchin 87 Chelsea South 1472 Allchin 71 Chelsea North East 1474 Orchin 105 Westminster Hanover Sq 1475 Alchin 480 Westminster Belgrave 1477 Orchin 135 Marylebone 1486 Allchin 279 Marylebone 1487 Allchin 266 Pancras 1495 Alchin 515 Alchin 688 Allchin 545 Pancras 1498 Allchin 480 Islington 1501 Alchin 689 St Clement Dane 1512 Alchin 147 St Clement Dane 1512 Orchin 187 Happy hunting Steve -- Stephen Jones, Surrey, Allchin Listowner -- steve@dorsetcoast.fsnet.co.uk -- www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk