Funny, the odd and curious little things one comes across when researching! In my delving into the ancestry of the comedian/presenter Alexander Armstrong, who is to be featured in a forthcoming episode of Who Do You Think You Are? I discovered that his paternal grandmother was a Fenwick from the Fenwicks of Embleton Hall, Longframlington, which property came into the family in 1780. One of his middle names is Fenwick. Today Embleton Hall is a country house hotel and, according to the hotel's website, some of the 13 bedrooms are named after Fenwick children - "Miss May, Miss Phyllis and so on..." Alexander Armstrong's grandmother was Phyllis Alison Fenwick (1910-1998) and she, according to an announcement in The Times, was living at Embleton Hall with her parents, James and Margaret Fenwick, when she married Reginald Armstrong, Alexander's grandfather, in 1932. Reginald died in 1991. So having seen the programme when it is eventually shown, you can go and spend a night in Alexander Armstrong's granny's old bedroom that she had as a child! The rates seem quite reasonable, too - £75 per night for a single, £105 for a double/twin and £125 for a master bedroom with a four-poster (all inc breakfast). It sounds like a good place to stay if I ever manage to get up there and explore the places where my own - somewhat more modest and humble - ancestors came from. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE