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

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 04:04:28 EDT [email protected] wrote: > 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. I have been inputting the WEBB family from the Whitchurch, Freefolk & Laverstock area into the database and found a Mary Ann GLASS born ca 1808 in Reading had married Samuel Webb at St. Giles, Reading in 1827 So I wondered if she too had come from Wiltshire. As it happens this Webb family has links to Kingsclere with Charles ROLFE born Dell in 1830 marrying Selina Webb at Whitchurch in 1856 and Lucy SEWARD born Town in 1807 marrying Stephen Webb at St. Mary, Kingsclere in 1832. -- John Lewis Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package