Hi Cuzzin' Carole.....and the rest of the gang!! Now here's a subject I think I can help you with. The Doomsday Book entry. I've copied much of the book "The Duttons of Dutton in Cheshire with notes repecting The Sherborne Branch of the Family." If you've never seen it, you can borrow a copy of it on microfilm from Salt Lake....# ....oh, I've misplaced that film number just now.......I'll find it later. In the first chapter titled Odard, the Norman, it says the following: "At the time of the Domesday survey in 1086, the lordship of Duntune belonged to three Normans, between whom it had been apportioned at the conquest. Its former Saxon owner, named Edward, a freeman, had held two portions of the lordship of which he had been dispossessed. One had passed to the Nigels, but of the other the Saxon Edward had regained possession, apparently as tenant to his Norman landlord, Osbern-fitz-Tezzon, who held lands elsewhere and he had improved it in value from one to two shillings. The remaining portion had belonged to a Saxon named Ravene, also a freeman, from whom it had been transferred to Odard, who held it of the earl of Chester. Its value had, however, under its new proprietor, declined from five shillings to twelve pence. Perhaps he was more attentive to his other Cheshire properties, as of two of them he had more than trebled the value. The following is facsimile of the actual entry in Domesday book relating to Odard's possession of Duntune. The lines which appear to cancel some of the words are rubricated in the original, such being the Norman method of distinguishing names and places of importance in that record. (Here it shows 4 lines of to-me-unreadable old English which apparently is the actual entry in the Domesday. I would be willing to scan this and send a copy as an attachment to anyone who provides a current e-mail address.) (What does rubricated mean??) Then it goes on, apparently a translation of the old English entry in the Domesday book.... "In English: 'Odard holds of the earl, Duntune. Ravene held it, and was a freeman. There is one virgate and a half of land rateable to the gelt. The land is one carucate. There is a radman with one serf. A wood a league long and half as broad and a hawk's aery. In king Edward's time it was worth 5s., now 12d." A lot of that could use some explaining in "American English!" But Wow....a hawk's aery......doesn't THAT sound interesting! Wonder what the story is behind that!! Further on in this (very large) book it mentions that same hawk's aery as still being on the property many generations later.......so it must have been important......and desirable if it was mentioned specifically. Useful? I don't know. Used for hunting in that "wood a league long and half as broad??" Perhaps. Now then, does this entry qualify as the "thrice named" entry for Dutton in the Domesday book, or is this just ONE of three different entries. I don't know. Somebody else smarter than me can figure that one out. Although, if there had been other entries....it seems to me that the author of this book would have copied them here as well. This book has many interesting things in it about the family.....including several "inventories" of the contents of Hatton Hall......and detailed stories of the two famous duels .......and some of the actual correspondence between King Henry the Eighth and Sir Piers Dutton.....among other things. One day this coming winter....when my life slows down a bit, I'll transcribe some of it to the list. It's fascinatin' stuff! Will make good reading on a cold night in front of a warm fire. later....... Phyllis in Atlanta