Thanks Mike for those few kind words, us cousins [not forgetting Jenny Peel] must stick together in this cruel world <grin> Dotty >Hazel reminded us:- > >>John Harold and John Leslie abandoned the surname PUDDEPHATT and assumed >>the surname WORTH > >I'm not surprised. The Puddephatt clan (various spellings) were, according >to my late father, best avoided (although I have to say that one of my >distant cousins - of this list - is descended from one and she seems a very >nice person.) There were Puddephatts all over the Bucks/Herts border >country in the 19th century, and still about forty in the HP postcode >district - according to the phone book. > >Mike