Hi Listers, Can anyone tell me with confidence the full names / identities of all these people mentioned in the following passage? "March 16. (1724) 91 . Governor Hart to the Council of Trade and Plantations. . . . . (concerning the disrespectful - to him- behaviour of William Fry a member of the Council of the Island) " . . . Upon which I suspended the said Fry from setting any more in H.M. Council till His Royal pleasure was known thereon : This I did by vertue of the last clause of my 13th Instruction ; for these reasons which I cou'd not communicate to the Council, (vizt.) That a majority of them were his very near relations by blood or alliance, Mr. Wyke being Mr. Fry's own nephew, Mr. Irish married his neice, and is also his relation in blood, Mr. Cook and Mr. Hodges are his cozin Germans ; which if I shou'd have openly mention'd wou'd have been accusing them of partiallity; . . . " this is what I know including that imputed from the above passage: FRY(e) - William Frye a member of the Council (son of a sister of the next?) WYKE - apparently a brother of Edward Wyke 1682-? sometime lieutenant- governor of the Island IRISH - William Irish, abt 1690-1725 spouse of Sarah Wyke, abt 1708-1748 d/o Edward above. Widowed she married Col. Samuel Martin COOK and HODGES - first cousins to William Frye (= cousins german) and so the same to Wyke? How is Frye "a relation in blood" to Irish? I'd be very glad to know anything more about these families even if it only confirms what I know. David Daniell Auckland New Zealand