In message <000c01c4daf4$b527b410$ee252952@oneself>, gill kelly <gk011a6271@blueyonder.co.uk> writes >Has anyone ever heard of the name Earwakes-Walkerstone. Earwaker, yes, in Hampshire (pronounced Irraker). It means boar watcher, originally (Eoforwacher) Hyphenated surnames were only just emerging, normally in the upper classes, in the 1890s. Maybe this was a joke name -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society