Tony, Thanks for your e-mail about Oxford. The painting I'm looking for is a portrait of Nicholas the Younger (Lanyear or Lanier or similar). The painting is by Nicholas Lanier (self-portrait) and is supposed to reside in the Collection of the Faculty of Music at Oxford University. Nicholas is apparently buried at Greenwich (died 1666). His portrait was also painted by Van Dyke, the famous Dutch painter. Nicholas was a famous musician (lute) to King Charles I and served as a representative of the king in the purchase of art, as well. If you have the opportunity to visit Oxford and would verify that this painting is there, I'd love to know that. By the way, my brother's name is Tony ("Anthony") also. >>> "Tony Dover" <tony.dover@talk21.com> 04/18/99 01:19pm >>> Hello again; you'll see I have a new email address now. Can you send me your address again please only I went to Oxford yesterday (one of those lovely hazy sunny spring mornings until it rained), so I stopped by in Wheatley en route. So I got you some notelets with pictures of the village on, plus a booklet about the Church. From this booklet it appears that, although there was a Chapel in Wheatley, this was dependent on the Parish Church at Cuddesdon. It wasn't until 1750 that the Chapel was consecrated for all services, but even then it reamined part of the Cuddesdon parish; that's why Wheatley occurences are recorded in the Cuddesdon Parish Registers. I have the complete transcribed Cuddesdon PRs on microfiche and will look as these tommorrow. All the best. Tony Dover Cheltenham, England ==== DOVER Mailing List ==== http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/dov/DoverWill http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/dov/DoverObits http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/dov/DoverBios http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/dov/DoverPens http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/dov/DoverDeed http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/dov/DoverBibl