Col Carol Noonan has just emailed me suggesting I 'google' Arundel County in Baltimore, USA. I have done so and it has material that would interest you. The County is named after an Arundel, member of the Arundel family in Cornwall. Cheers Pat On 26/07/2012 2:19 PM, Col Paterson wrote: > G'day all, I have at least 7 generations of a Cornish family from > Perranaworthal they came out here 1845 in each generation there is a male > child named Arundel. In some cases father and son, not all. Arundel Castle > is a restored medieval Norman castle in Suffolk would there be any > connection there? It seems an unusual name, I would guess that it would have > some sort of attachment to something, somewhere or somebody anywhere. > > What ideas can we come up with? > > Orlabest > > Col > > ------------------------------- > Subscribe to digest by sending an email to CORNISH-D-request@rootsweb.com with the word SUBSCRIBE in the subject line and body text. If you want, MIME digests, email CORNISH-admin@rootsweb.com. > > Unsubscribe from either by sending an email to CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CORNISH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Thank you all for your informative responses I have enough of an answer to satisfy my curiosity, apparently my question to the list was not perfectly clear in that my interest was in a forename not a surname, but not a prob, as the reply's have certainly covered both instances. I have always found it pays to talk to people who know more than me. Subject closed Orlabest Col