Thank you all for your replies - very interesting! I can understand the relevance of the term 'bounders', but I wonder why a teapot be called a 'jingle pot'? Very odd! ------------- Stan, I found them under the Ancestry main heading 'England Historical Records', in the section headed 'Durham, England: Parish and Probate Records', while searching for the name 'John Atkinson'. Hope this helps. Regards, Mary O