Hello Dorothy and All, Grace SYMES/SIMS of All Canning, Wilts married George HUTCHINS 21 February 1733 All Cannings, Wiltshire, my 7 x great grandparents. HUTCHINS turned into HITCHENS. The SYMES/SIMS is one line for further research. 1881 Census North Street, Kingsclere, Hants Head Eliza ROLFE nee SIMS widow age 65 born, occupation Sack and Cloth Maker, granddaughter Sarah Louise ROLFE unmarried age 17 occ Sack and Cloth Maker, great grandson William G ROLFE age 9 months, niece Ellen LEWINGTON age 1 year all born Kingsclere. Thomas BASTIN widow age 63 boarder, Farm Labourer born East Woodhay, Hants. Sarah Louise ROLFE married George HOLLY 27 May 1882 Kingsclere (my 2C4R) Witness are John POVEY and Lucy Watts POVEY. John SIMS married Eliza LEWINGTON 3 October 1836 Kingsclere Kind regards Barbara Lewis Mallyon Basingstoke, Hants. UK [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 8:04 AM Subject: Re: [King] Info found in HGS Magzines-SIMS Hi Barbara, Yes, I have been in contact with Peter and he sent me a copy of his book. I can't remember now how we first got in contact but I imagine one of us must have seen the other one's name in the HGS magazine. Our Sims family does have a connection with Wiltshire.....just! Thomas Sims' grandparents William SIMS/SEEMS and Frances GLASS were married in Easton Royal in 1776. Frances was a local girl and I have managed to trace her family in the Vale of Pewsey back to the first parish registers. However I have never managed to establish where William came from. Some while ago I found a marriage of Henry SEEMS and Ann TREHERN at East Woodhay, 1753. I have never discovered where Henry and Ann went after that. They had no children bapt in the area and they were not buried there. One possibility is the nearby parish of Linkenholt, for which the registers survive only for marriages in the Phillimore transcript, which shows the presence of Simses at that time. I am very tempted by Henry and Ann as parents for William because of: use of SEEMS as a variant of Sims William and Frances called their eldest son Henry and their eldest daughter Ann the fact that, after his marriage to Frances, William settled in Faccombe, which is very close to both East Woodhay and Linkenholt. More speculation! Dorothy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.17/1103 - Release Date: 01/11/2007 06:01