On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 13:07:35 -0800, Andrew Wallace <andrew.wallace@telia.com> wrote: >Does anybody have access to An index to the pedigrees and arms >contained in the heralds' visitations, and other genealogical >manuscripts in the British museum and wouldnt mind doing a little >check for me? I have been sent a copy of some of the pages but the key >is missing. On page 23 it list a Washington family from Westbury and >gives the following information: 1533, fo 204b. Anybody know what that >means? The book is by R Sims, originally published in 1849. It has been reprinted several times since, for example on paper by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, USA, and in 'Armigerous Ancestors' by Cecil Humphrey-Smith (1997). The reference 1533 is to the Harleian Manuscript number in the British Museum's (BM) collection of manuscripts. Cecil Humphrey-Smith's 'Armigerous Ancestors (1997) has a table which indicates that this particular BM manuscript contains a copy of the Herald's Visitation of Buckinghamshire for both the year's 1634 and 1674. The 1634 Visitation was published by the Harleian Society in 1909 in their Visitation Volume LVIII - although the text for this book came mainly from another Harleian Manuscript: MS Eng. Misc. C. 17 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford . . . There is no Washington family pedigree in this volume, though there are a few stray references to the Washington name in other pedigrees. This suggests that the Washington pedigree is in the 1674 Visitation, which has not been published. So you would need to examine, or have examined, the original manuscript in the British Museum. 'fo 204b' refers to the reverse of folio (sheet) number 204 in that manuscript. Cheers, John John Addis-Smith Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, England