Hi to everyone on the list, I have been researching my BRUCEWATER ancestors for a number of years and have been unable to find any other family besides my direct line anywhere in the world. It has been suggested to me that the name is probably BRUCE-WATER. Anyway this is all I know and I hope someone on the list can help me. Nathaniel BRUCEWATER [also known as James] occupation Sailor, first appears in Whitby, Yorkshire England in 1770 with wife Ann, son William aged 3, no record of a marraige in Whitby or Williams birth, then the birth of Marshall b. 1770 in Whitby. The family stayed there until Marshall married Hannah Scorfield in 1790 in Whitby and had a son Marshall b. 1794. Marshall no.2 then moved to Durham, then on to Leeds and then to London. His son James Marshall Bruce-Water moved to Australia and he is my gg grandfather. Has anyone heard of this name or of any BRUCE and WATER marraiges pre 1750. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I am at my wits end with this lot. They may have come from Scotland as their accent must have been very thick as the variants of this surname just in my direct line begin like this. BRUISEWATER, BREWSWATER, BRUESWHATER, BRUCEWHATTER, BRUCEWHARTER, BRUCEWHARTEN, and there are a few more, so I presume that their accent wasn't English. Kind regards Jennifer in Australia.