> I am researching the Bonham and Fleet families Normally speaking, you would expect Bonhams and Fleets, and especially any combination of the two names, to be in Wingrave. And Thomas is a regular name in the family there, so next door in Bierton did not look so odd, till I checked. There are no Bonhams recorded in the registers of Bierton till 1842, and your own couple do not baptise there - not strange, since there were plenty of chapels within reach. Would you believe that your Thomas Bonham came from Cold Brayfield, about as far north in the county of Bucks as you can get? He was a bricklayer, b c 1805, and it looks very much as if he, with his siblings came south in a group, with their father, whom I suspect to be William Bonham - bricklayer.b c 1774. It is true bricklayers got around a bit, when so many houses were building or rebuilding, but it is a long way to come. EVE McLaughlin SecretaryBucks Genealogical Society