As I'm new to the List. may I introduce my interests. My maternal grandmother was born a HATWELL, whose family lived in Chelsea since the early 1800s. The earliest name I have in London is an Andrew Shute HATWELL, who had children around 1801 onwards. I was surprised to find two Christian names as the family were, by all accounts, ordinary working folk. Remembering that my grandmother used to drop her "H"s, I wondered whether a clergyman may have done the reverse and added an H to the name ATWELL. Sure enough, there is an entry on the IGI for the baptism of ANDREW SHUTE ATWILL at Totnes on 23 Feb 1770. Only a mother - Julian - is shown. A few months later, an Andrew Shute married in the same church, but not to Julian Atwill (she later married John CONGDON in Dartmouth on 30 Mar 1777). Julian Atwill appears to have come from a line of Atwells at Rattery, Devon - she was baptised 1737, father Thomas. I would be delighted to hear from anyone researching (h)Atwells in either of these places. Ray Johnson Otley in Sleepy Suffolk