Hello, My name is David Smith and I live in Yorkshire, England. My interests centre around two One Name Studies that I currently run. The first concerns the surname PUMMELL and variations. There appear to be three roots to this family, one originating in Norfolk and stretching to the USA down one line and via London and Bristol to Birmingham, England on another. The third line, my own connection originates in the Oxfordshire/Berkshire area of England. The earliest reference that I have to the name is about 1600. The second study is on the surname GILKES and variations. I have built up a number of databases including parish register extracts (4,850), census returns (2,410), births from the FRC indexes between 1837 and 1957 (3,996), marriages from the FRC indexes between 1837 and 1924(1,595) as well as indexes of wills and references from Australia and Canada. If anyone out there requires help with these names please contact me and I will freely give my help. Equally if anyone has any information on these subjects I would be pleased to hear from them. Happy hunting, David Smith e-mail address:- [email protected] Oxfordshire Family History Soc. ref. 2876 Berkshire Family History Soc. ref. 3427 Guild Of One Name Studies ref. 2929 Names researched GILKES and PUMMELL