Your Sunday Conundrum!! John LIPPETT bapt Ullingswick 1765 - family traced to Henry Lippet mar. 1684 Marden - moved to Pencombe - had son John LIPPETT 1789 who married 1821 with children born there John 1822, Mary Ann 1824, Ann 1826, Benjamin 1829, LUCY 1831, LOUISA 1831, James and William 1836, Eliza 1838, Edward 1842, Elizabeth 1845. All the early names except LUCY and LOUISA have family background. Now!! Buried Ullingswick 8 May 1826 LUSION LEPORTE aged 2 years. Thought initially this might be an illegitimate of a sister of John BUT an IGI search soon gave LUCIEN LA PORTE bapt 1 Jun 1823 St James Westminster, s of Dominique Laporte and Margaret (Compton) who married 19 May 1822 St Anne Soho with daughter MARY LOUISA bapt 25 Jul 1824 St James Westminster. Dominique was probably s of Gabriel and Ann Laporte but isn't on the IGI. The family were undoubtedly of Huguenot extraction. I have no doubt this is the poor little chap and one can well imagine the grief of the mother - 'He would have been 3 years old next week!' The questions are :- 1) How did a Huguenot family get to this very rural part of Herefordshire. 2) With such a similarity of surnames could there be an earlier connection - which would mean Huguenot origins I would think but prior to 1684. There were Lippetts around the area in the early 1600's though. 3) The naming of LUCY and LOUISA looks very suspicious to me in the circumstances. Both were uncommon (of the approx 5000 women still alive in 1881 born HEF between 1825 and 1835 only 27 and 21 were so named) and to find them both in the same family most unusual. A possible additional clue - John Lippett had a first wife Anne Pewtresse (died young) also a possible ancestor who married another Anne Pewtresse in the 1600s - strange name! Please put your thinking cap on and send any ideas or thoughts - ask for further info if you think it will help. Bob Rudd in Sunny Australia.