Can I pick your brains? (When the server is mended!) I only have a printed copy of the Little Shelford PRs but I need to know if the marriages in 1675 were particularly difficult to read. I have a Johannes HOWARD marrying an AMY NEWMAN in Cambridge on 6.9.1675 (ref IGI - do not know the Cambridge parish!!). This marriage date perfectly fits my Johannes Howard who had his children in Little Shelford beginning with John in May 1676. Trouble is all the children are stated as being of John and Ann - not Amy. Amy appears to be interchangeble with Emma but not Ann. If the registers are hard to read then this could explain things. The other piece of evidence is that John and "Ann" had a son called "Newman" in 1682 and this family are notorious for using the maiden names in all their children for generations. There is no other marriage for a John Howard at the right time to an Ann. If anyone is researching the name NEWMAN and has any clues, I would be most grateful. regards Juliet