JFB Jr mentioned his Blanchard lines and evidently assumed that we would all know who was meant by Thomas-1. I certainly did, but, in fairness to those on the list who are *not* descendants of immigrant Thomas Blanchard of Charlestown, Mass., it would have been good to be a little more explicit about time and/or place. He asked about the 1st and 3rd wives of Thomas. Everything known to me about them is in the on-line file on the lines of Thomas & Joseph, accessible through the Blanchard-L Web site. There is a very strong chance that there is no surviving record of his first marriage, since it would have taken place in the midst of a gap in the records at Goodworth Clatford. Of course, the marriage could have taken place in another parish, but many of the parishes in that area have no records at all from that period. Similarly, the third marriage is probably not provable by direct documentation. John