<<As you seem very knowledgeable historically, I wonder if you know anything about links of Northants and Oxfordshire PARGITERs (PARGETERs) with Bucks. I'll have to go back to an old file to lay fingers on the specific refs I have from A2A and so forth.. But I seem to remember a land deal between Sir William PARGITER of Greatworth and the wealthy family in Whaddon (was it LOWNDES then?) - date about 1780 I think. And Rev Robert PARGETER at Buckingham came, I believe, from Tadmarton?>> Well, I like to think I'm a historian, Celia, and I'm immensely flattered to be called knowledgeable, but I could only claim to be very knowledgeable about one small place - Great Horwood - and then only for the period before 1600 (better a big fish in a small pond ...). So I'm afraid I don't know anything about the Pargiters - except that there weren't any in Great Horwood before 1600! Eve would be more likely than I to know something about the people you mention. However I have had a quick look through a few county-wide lists of names and Pargiter seems to be a name which was nearly completely unknown in Buckinghamshire. In fact I found only one reference to it - the will of Robert Pargiter of Buckingham, which was proved in the PCC in 1647 (the parson you mention, perhaps?) Sorry I couldn't be more help, Matt