Robert, I am descended from the large AYRES/EYRES family of Gypsies, who frequented Hampshire and adjoining counties. I have more than 400 baptisms for the family, plus many other entries, mainly in Hampshire and Surrey. There were certainly AYRES/EYRES Gypsies in Dorset, but I only have a few baptisms and census entries in the county. Are you able to check entries at the Dorset Record Office? Alan McGowan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Hillier" <robert@hillieruk.demon.co.uk> To: <eng-hampshire@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 9:38 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-HANTS] Eyres in Hampshire >> I shan't take you up on your very kind offer of furnishing details of other Hampshire EYRES events since, even by limiting my project to Dorset, unscrambling the EYRES lines there is already a mammoth task and adding Hampshire would be definitely ott. >>