Richard, Thankyou for the informative reply. I thought as much. That clears something up. Will now start looking at the Teagues/Dangerfields nothing obvious at the moment. Regards Patsy on 11/8/05 10:58 am, Richard Teagle at richardt@wales.ac.uk wrote: > Patsy > > I suspect DEAUGE is meant to be TEAGUE. There were many TEAGUEs in Forest of > Dean/Severside are in 1700s etc. Apart from TEAG and TEAGE as obvious spelling > variations, I have seen the name transcribed as TEAUGE in Ruardean area, which > is close to your DEAUGE. > > I have never found TEAGLE and TEAGUE to be linked. All TEAGLE's in the > Wilts/Glos area descend from Nicholas TACKLE, lecturer/curate of Tockenham > near Wootton Bassett during the Civil War. Nicholas and one of his sons who > was later churchwarden spelt it TACKLE themselves, but his wife is buried as > TEAGLE, and his other son (my ancester) and grandchildren spelt it TAGLE, > TEAGEL or TEAGLE. There were temporary spelling variations with a K instead of > G (TEKEL. TEAKLE) as they moved into parishes such as Oldbury/Didmarton and > Horsley in Glos, as there were already TEAKLEs in the Horsley/Bisley areas, > but whatever variations occur, there is always an "L" in it. > > Incidently, for THOMPSON/HUNT researchers, Nicholas TACKLE above was the > 2xgtgrandfather of Charlotte TEAGLE, wife of Samuel HUNT (both buried > Hawkesbury), mother of Shadrack HUNT of Hawkesbury, whose two daughters both > married THOMPSONS. I now have details back 4 generations before Charlotte if > anyone wants them, plus Nicholas' wife's family (JACOB) back to her > grandfather who leased Queen's Court Farm, Tockenham in the 1570s. > > My posting on 9 Aug is a mystery - I didn't intend posting anything. Must have > hit the wrong button, or its those gremlins again. > > Richard. >