I am interested in tracing all records relating to the DUESBERY family of Scarborough (from which I descend). The name has several spelling variants, such as DUESBURY, DEWSBURY, DEWSBERRY, etc, but these would seem to have been used fairly interchangeably, and to have referred to the same family. I have been through the parish records for Scarborough, and have pieced together some of the family tree. One branch intermarried with the Thornton family, resulting in the Thornton-Duesbery line, which appears in Crisp's "Visitation of England and Wales", 1919, and Walker's "Yorkshire Pedigrees", 1943. The other branches, however (including mine), are more difficult to trace. It appears, though, that the family was sufficiently prominent in Scarborough to have left its name attached to different streets and passageways. For example, in Pigot's "National Commercial Directory", 1834, there is a Scarborough joiner, Robert Percy, living at 4 Dewsbery Place, a retailer of beer, John Bradley, and a turner, Matthew Hill, also in Dewsbery Place, a ship owner, Christopher Hill, in Dewsbury Row, and a school, Amicable Society's Schools, in Dewsbery Walk. In White's "History, etc, of East and North Yorkshire", 1840, the Amicable Society still has its school in Duesbery (sic) Walk, although Robert Percy is by then at 4 North Terrace (is this a change of address, or has his old address instead been renamed?) I would be interested in any information about any member of this family. Also, any information about the origin of the names of these different parts of Scarborough would be very much welcomed. And, lastly, does anyone know: is there anywhere in today's Scarborough where the Duesbery name survives? A. Mark Robinson London