Margaret's post and the follow-ups led me to suspect that she had obtained her information about "Tregarren" from a transcription or index, without the original images being available to see whether that was how the name of the place was actually written in the original or if "Tregrarren" was really an artifact of transcription of a place name that had other potential readings. While indexes and transcriptions are very valuable, it is really the original document that is the source, so that the index or transcription is really a stepping stone to the real goal. Unfortunately digitized images of original records are only slowly making their way to the Internet. So this led me to seek out either a web site that might have the images of the St. Keverne Protestation Returns or else tell me where the original document is so that a copy might be obtained. And this has led to a series of web pages that might be of interest to others ... and also to not being able to find even where the original document is, something that an index or transcript should ideally include in its text but which often is not included. Googling on "protestation returns 1641 sanns" (without the quotes in the Google query), I found the likely web page that Margaret had found with the transcription of the returns: http://www.st-keverne.com/history/records/protestation.html Sure enough, it does say "Tregarren". And sure enough there is no mention of where the original records are, from which the transcription was made. I then changed my Google search to "protestation returns 1641 images" (again no quotes). This brought back a set of images, one of which was of a hand-written document. Clicking on that one, I eventually wound up at the Parliament page on protestation returns: http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/parliamentary-archives/archives-highlights/familyhistory/sources/protestations/ This gave specific instructions for searching their collections with their Portcullis search engine. Following those instructions yielded the list of returns by county, with four separate entries for Cornwall: Go     HL/PO/JO/10/1/79     Main Papers: Protestation Returns Cornwall A     1642     Protestation Returns Go     HL/PO/JO/10/1/79A     Main Papers: Protestation Returns Cornwall A (Callington)     1642     Protestation Returns Go     HL/PO/JO/10/1/80     Main Papers: Protestation Returns Cornwall B     1642     Protestation Returns Go     HL/PO/JO/10/1/81     Main Papers: Protestation Returns Cornwall C     1642     Protestation Returns So, I thought, I will soon know where the original document is held. And I clicked the "Go" links for each one, looking so see which one held St. Keverne's return. And there it is in the listing of parishes of the Hundred of Kerrier in the "Cornwall A" list. Both the overview page and the Portcullis overview page have information about how to obtain copies, as opposed to actually visiting and searching the records. It would be a good idea for the St. Keverne web page with the transcription to either obtain these copies and post them or at least to post the information about where the original record can be found. It would be interesting to find out just what the word transcribed as "Tregarren" looks like in the original. ----- From: "Margaret Bauer" <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 10:31:55 +1000 Subject: [CORNISH-GEN] Where was Tregarren. Hi Listers Can someone tell me if a place "Tregarren" is the name of a local area near St Keverne, or was it the name of a farm or an estate etc. please? I have a Richard Sanns who was mentioned in the Protestation list of 1641 as being there, but there were many other names as well, so I am now not sure. I tried to call it up on the internet to learn a little more about it, but kept getting some college with the same name, so am not sure what is what. Thankyou Margaret ************************* Margaret Bauer Queensland, Australia [email protected] *************************