Hi Anyone looking for possible living relatives - particularly if the name is reasonably unusual, like BEMAND - would be well advised to invest in a subscription to www.eroll.co.uk which is an electoral roll site. The good thing is you can subscribe for a month at a time at £9.95 (but don't forget to cancel if you don't want to continue!). You can search on surname and area only, for example, to come up with a list of possible relatives. BEMAND and Herefordshire produces a list of names and addresses of several BEMANDs around Leominster, Risbury, Stoke Prior etc. Liz

Hello to Liz, There was and guess still is, nothing reasonably unusual about this name, at least round the Shropshire/Herefordshire/Radnorshire corner. What makes them so difficult is the variety of spellings for the name, held me up considerably. Jo. Shropshire.