If you look on a surname distribution map of the British Isles for 1881, the greatest concentration of the Rickards surname by then is actually in Devon, followed by Cornwall and then somewhere in the Home Counties. I don't know if that sheds any light on its origins, though! Florian > ------------------------------- > 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 >