Hi Waffles Thanks for the response - much appreciated and will add your comments to those already received. Cheers Peter, the older of the tworobbos

Hello, Peter. I seem to write to you every few years saying (unhelpfully) that I need lookups but don't really know what! How embarrassing. But at last I can frame an intelligent request, I think. Are you still prepared to do these favours? Here's my situation, if so. Cutting in Bacton, Suffolk, C17-19, is my central concern, but I have a cousin with the Bacton PR fiches, so that's not a problem. The trouble arises when they start leaving home. In 1851 one Samuel Cutting appears on the census in Wickham Skeith; he must've been the right age to be my chap. Unfortunately mine was Robert Samuel Flowerdew Cutting, who tended to change his mind about which of his names he'd answer to. If you can find anything about him in W Skeith it would be very useful. I think he moved to Fornham St Martin, married and died there as Robert, but if there's a likely Samuel in WS I'll have to consider him too. In Stoke Ash I have a family of ASHFORDs to follow: any PR entries relevant to any of them either side of 1881 would be interesting, though not central to my research. You mentioned once that you had PRs for other neighbouring villages: may I ask which ones? I've got family spread throughout Hartismere, and collaterals who need sorting out. Any data on John CUTTING, bapt c. 1796 somewhere near Bacton, would be extremely helpful. I don't know what I can offer in return except thanks, but I can say please don't worry or rush. If you can do this I'm happy to wait. Regards, Phoebe