TXBLUEBONT wrote: I am new to the list and i want to find more about my Edwards ancestors my first question would be where did the Panifer come from. I found on the 1851 census . listed below how it is seen on census New Street Cambridge William EDWARDS 50 shoe maker born BOSON lincs Elizabeth dau 15 John 10 Mary A .wife 49 nurse b Suffolk Sarah A PANFOR( sic) unmarried. seamstress It looks likely that this is a second wife and all the subsequent children had the name PANIFR as a middle name 1841 MARY is a farm servant in Suffolk I then found a marriage Mary Ann PANNEFOR married Charles EDWARDS 1844 Jan qtr Warm GENE regards Margaret NOTTS UK