This source may be useful to research your pre-parish register ancestors: http://www.englandsimmigrants.com/ The introduction says: Welcome to England’s Immigrants 1330-1550, a fully-searchable database containing over 64,000 names of people known to have migrated to England during the period of the Hundred Years’ War and the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses and the Reformation.(continued) Put CORNWALL in the search box and 853 names are returned, showing nationality, date, Cornwall parish of residence and details of source documents. Regards, Maureen Selley Cornwall FHS 3899 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com