>Dear Listers > > You have broken the record for the least number of >messages posted to the Hunter Valley list ....to date >there have been just 7 for March > Still reading, but my "brickwall" is overseas. (This is off-topic so if MargM decides not to publish, I understand). The 'brickwall" is very complicated at this point. Miss H has a child out of wedlock to a nobleman Mr C in 1801. After the birth she married Mr F. He dies a few years later. She has another child to Mr H (nobeman) in 1806. Mr C's wife dies in 1816. Both boys are (re-)christened in 1816 with their biological father's surname. He marries Miss H (now Mrs F) in 1818. Mr C has an extensive Will written in 1822 (ie after the first child turns 21). Mr C dies in 1824, leaving a perpetual income to his wife (Miss H, Mrs F and now Mrs C) and 2,500 pounds to each of the boys (neither of whom are heirs to the estate). In the will the first boy is called William F (why?), the second Charles C. William dies in 1838. His son is christened William Henry C H and the C H (Childe Hughes) is perpetuated to all family since, even though not hyphenated. In this son's marriage certificate the father's (ie W C/H, later W F, later W C) occupation is given as "gentleman". Complicated story! John Goswell