David, thank you for the information regarding the origin of Bivois/Bevois Street. I obtained the spelling from a birth certificate dated April 1844. In the When and Where Born column it looks like 68 Bivois Street, Saint Mary, Southampton. In the Informant column it looks like 68 Bevois Street, Saint Mary, Southampton. However, as I mentioned, I did check the address on the 1841 census and it looked to me like Bivois Street. Then I used Autoroute to check what is there today and indeed, as you say, there is Bevois Valley Road and Bevois Gardens, both in Southampton. Thank you for helping me to clear this up. I am still asking for anyone who has these names in their tree, particularly SHAVE, as I hardly have any information on that family. The IGI has loads of SHAVE families in that area, so at some stage I must look at the parish records for Southampton to try to find more members of this SHAVE family. Happy Hunting! Lin Herts