Hi Listers, Yesterday I received a message from a descendant of the PLUM family, cutlers of Bristol, who had come across B & S correspondence I had with Hugh Watkins in 2006. The correspondence, featured a trade card, which I had discovered, concerning T. LAPHAM, Surgical Instrument Maker, Cutler & Gunsmith, who had been with Mr. PLUM, Dolphin Street for 14 years. I had also found the following advertisement, which dates from c.1857: Robert T. Plum, Manufacturer of Cutlery and Surgical Instruments, 3, St. Augustine's Parade, Bristol. Fishing Rods and Tackle.--Walking Canes, Riding Whips, etc. Yesterday I found Robert PLUM, Cutler etc. at 4 Dolphin Street, Bristol in Pigot's Directory of Bristol of 1830: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/Bristol/JOSEPHtoRINGER.html Looking in the B & A FHS resources I found this baptism of another member of the PLUM family: Matilda PLUM, daughter of William and Jane, was baptized on 13th. May 1827 at St. Peter's Church, Bristol. Abode was Dolphin Street and father's occupation was baker. Dolphin Street was destroyed in the first Bristol Blitz of 24th.- 25th. November 1940. Here's a link to a captioned photograph of how it looked before the war. http://www.flickr.com/photos/brizzlebornandbred/4176572831/ Does anyone have links with this PLUM family of Dolphin Street? Josephine