Hello John, Sue & interested others, I concur with John as I have a Guilelmus (KRAUS) in my line christened 1835 in the Roman Catholic Church albeit in the Rhein-Pfalz, Bayern (today's Germany). I knew this particular family to have been R.C. so no surprises there. So the Latin form of the name William was used in Germany as well as apparently in the U.K. Best wishes, Bette > I mentioned the Roman Catholic connection because I couldn't find any > trace of an ancestor in the parish records (about the turn of the 19th > century). I found him eventually in the records from a Roman Catholic > Chapel in Co Durham - I was unaware of any RC members of the family. > > Best wishes, > John