Hi All One of the most useful Cumbrian reference books you can have on your shelves is Freda Jackson's 'A Place Name Index of Habitations in Cumberland'. Invaluable if you want to find the location or correct spelling of a farm. What doesn't exist, as far as I know, is something that, having a surname, you can look to see which farm the surname might have come from (the only way you can try to do this at the moment is by looking at probate indexes). So, folks, what I'd like you to do is to post in any farm + surname connections that you have. The only 'rule' about this is that the surname should be connected to (not necessarily own) the farm for a minimum of two generations. e.g. Subject: Farm Surname - Younghusband Lower Nook FarTooRemote Parish c1760-1820 Upper Nook FarTooRemote Parish c1720- (present day) Give it a go! Chris chris@dickinson.uk.net

Swinsty Holme Cultram mid-17thC - ?

Subject: Farm Surname - Ostle Newtown (Later known as West Farm, Newtown) Parish Holm Cultram 1538 - 1971 (Farm still in family ownership, but no longer worked by an Ostle, just the nephew of one!) Peter Ostle visit the family websites at www.ostle.ca