You can try searching the "Cake nad Cakehorse" magazine avaialable on the Cherwell council site. One such reference gives. Flemish Huguenots are believed to have introduced woad into that parish in the sixteenth century. There is a house in the village called Woad House which, to judge by a window in the decorated style, dates at least in part to the fourteenth century. It is, or was, generally known as the Wodd. A smelly job with an article on Pickering family, if I remember. The woad workers were itinerant workers, I thought, so unlikely to include your lot. I leave the other two references for you to find. If you search Plester- do not forget the variants. http://www.cherwell.gov.uk/index.cfm Rod Wise PS Otherwise, you are lucky you do not have to search "WISE" ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Plester" <plester.familyhistory@hotmail.co.uk> To: <eng-banbury-area@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 6:06 AM Subject: Re: [BAN] Is there a Huguenot link to Banburyshire? > > I had some dealings with the Society about five years ago - and actually > found the French Hospital to be amazingly helpful. They are well worth > contacting by anyone who thinks they may have Huguenot connections. > > > > John Plester > > > > Also researching: JOINES, TAPLIN, and TEW in the Banburyshire Area. > > > > website: www.plesterfamilyhistory.org > > _________________________________________________________________ > Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ > > Some useful websites: > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-BANBURY-AREA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message