Another single reference to the PREECE family. A Frances PREECE, bapt 15.04.1796, St. Johns, Hereford, HEF (from the VRI I think, my records are not good here) married my Charles Hickes GREENLY at Chatham, KENT, 16.02.1837. He was bapt 18.08.1805 at Ebenezer Chapel, Bristol having been born in Swansea. His parents were from Hereford. He remarried in 1860 and became a father a year later (the son becoming a world famous geologist) so Frances probably died before then, although I have found no record of her death. It would seem that Frances's parents were John PREECE and Frances GREENLY (!). This Frances was sister to Charles, father of the above mentioned Charles Hickes so, by my calculation, the Frances who married Charles Hickes GREENLY was in fact his cousin (one of three such occurrences in my family tree). Confused? I am. David Matthews