Angela Thanks for the LEWIS records you sent me. Just as soon as I can be sure that I'm barking up the right ancestral tree so to speak with Charles/Isaac LEWIS, I shall certainly look at those - but I'm afraid to invest too much effort in pusuing what may turn out in the end to be the wrong family! To be honest, I still think I have the right man (not least because I cannot find any other candidates), but there are still a couple of issues I think: 1. There's nothing but circumstantial evidence to say that Charles & Elizabeth LEWIS (who I'm pretty sure are my g grandparents) from the 1881, 1891 and 1901 cenuses are defiinitively the same couple as the Isaac & Betsey LEWIS whose (civil and synagogue) marriage records I've found. 2. Even if there are other examples of Isaac known as Charles in my family that could explain the name change, and even if there's a supporting family rumour that Isaac may have changed his name from Isaac LEVY to Charles LEWIS, this Isaac LEWIS was not Halevi (at least not at his marriage). So, I'm thinking that if his son Lewis/Louis LEWIS were registered at birth as Halevi then even if I can't explain why his father, Isaac/Charles, was not registered as Halevi at the time of his marriage, I could at least eliminate this key source of doubt that Isaac/Charles LEWIS is my g g grandfather. While I wait for a copy of Lewis/Louis LEWIS' birth certificate, I'm thinking that there's one other thing I should be doing to resolve this issue of Isaac not being Halevi - which is to try to find a record of his son Lewis/Louis' hebrew name at birth. Do you know where I might locate that? He was born (most likely) in May 1878, but all the records I saw at the Family History Centre for the Great Synagogue seem to stop before that date. The same question also for Charles/Isaac's birth - would I be able to get the same information for him if I believe that he was born sometime between April 1844 and March 1845 and may have been born LEVY instead of LEWIS? I have found a candidate 1851 and 1861 census records for his childhood as Isaac LEVY and also a candidate civil record for his birth, but I don't know if they would be as valuable as a synagogue record right now. As always, suggestions and thoughts from anyone will be gratefully received. Steve