Hello all, Our Nottinghamshire branch is officially open with a submission from Jeff & Kathy Orford-Perkins! It isn't huge, but we aren't picky, right? Every little bit helps. Take a look here <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~jmbhome/1dewhurst.html> at the charts for William Dewhurst and Margaret nee Finch. See if they give you anything to work with yourself and if so, let us all know! Collectively, I just know we will get our family groups worked out... Subscriptions to the list are slowly growing, so more and more descendants are all "looking over each other's shoulders" to see where we all fit. Does anyone have this family further back than 1700? Does anyone find them anywhere else than in England in those early times? I am dying to know if there is any truth to the rumors in my family that the family originated in the Black Hills of Austria, came with the court of Marie Antoinette to France, then fled to Hull when Marie's head was "offed".... Let's keep the dialogue going ;] Jana