In a message dated 16/05/2004 21:41:52 GMT Daylight Time, bill.stratton@ns.sympatico.ca writes: From The 1870 American Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster LL.D. Hind , n ( O. Eng. & Scot. hyne, hine, A S Hine, hina, with of sufffixed; A S Hina man, a farmer.) 1. A domestic; a servant. 2 A peasant; a rustic; a country man; a swain; a boor; or a husbandman's servant. . For a more "on the spot", and therefore probably more accurate, definition, see the note appended by the enumerator to the 1851 census of - I think - Ford, Northumberland (at least it was somewhere in Glendale). For the benefit presumably of the Registrar who would be checking his work he defined the difference between a hind, a spade hind and a bondager. The full text of the note was published in the Journal of the Northumberland and Durham Family History Society, Vol 1 No 1 in October 1975, which has been re-published on the NDFHS CD-ROM of the first 100 issues of the Journal. . Geoff Nicholson . 57 Manor Park, Concord, WASHINGTON, Tyne & Wear NE37 2BU Ask for details of NBL/DUR family history research in depth by THE local expert, working for YOU.