>From Gill Carpenter. I think can help Bruce R Carpenter, I feel sure that the Port of Fowyk is the place known as Fowey [pronounced "Foy"] and is on the South coast of Cornwall. It is still a working port. Last year I watched a large sea-going ship loading with china clay which is mined locally near St. Austell. I was in Cornwall with my husband Tony [ who you all know] to meet some newly found relations. Tony had traced my family to Cornwall, as I come from Job and Tabb roots, both Cornish families. You may be interested to know that there was a connection between the Jobs and Carpenters, which was found in my husband's research, though it was purely a commercial and financial connection. Zephaniah Job, one of my maternal ancestors was blessed with an understanding of mathematics, he set up a small school in the fishing village of Polperro, where the inhabitants supplemented their meagre income by smuggling contraband goods. It did not take long for Zephaniah to become bookkeeper and middle man for the smuggling fraternity as most of them could neither read or write. The Guernsey Merchants wanted a contact as guarantor for the payments of the goods after they were sold in England. It was not long before he became known as the Smugglers Banker and was issuing his own five pound notes. The financial entrepreneur's activities came to the knowledge of the local landowner, Sir William Trelawny, who, as many landowners were in the Eighteenth century, was in some financial difficulty. Trelawney retained Zephaniah as his Steward who took over and expertly managed all his financial affairs. Not bad for a miner's son. For nearly fifty years, until his death in 1822, the inhabitants of Polperro profited from Zepheniah Job's network of influential business contacts that included all levels of society. Zephaniah's lawyer and great friend was a John Phillips Carpenter who had a daughter Patience, who subsequently married Sir Harry Trelawney's son, William Lewis who, incidentally, was educated at Oriel College Oxford. With reference to the Great City of York, it is situated on the river Ouse. The river flows to the Humber estuary and thence to the North Sea. York was an inland port for many centuries, its history can be traced back to pre-Roman times. By the way, Lavenham in West Suffolk is about fifty miles away from London, and cannot in the wildest of imaginings be considered part of the Greater London conurbation! Hope you don't mind me adding my two penny's worth into the debate, sometimes a fresh pair of eyes can spot a missing link. Gill Carpenter