On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 02:27:27 +0100, Jan Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > KEITH - in area from about 1797 - 1808. > Will has ... "my copyhold or lifehold estate and houses situate at Somers Hill Saint Georges near the city of Bristol"... On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:48:46 +0100, Jan Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > At one stage, he was running the school which became the Pocock > School. The associated names I have are Prospect Place and St Michaels > Hill. > The mystery is still the wording used in the Will - obviously written > by an educated scribe - "at Somers Hill ....." Hi Jan, It's no mystery to me. I think 'Somers Hill' was in the area known as Summer Hill in St. George near Bristol. There were schools in this locality later in the 19th century. There's an entry for Henry BANWELL, Gent's Boarding School, Summer Hill, St George's, Bristol in Pigot's Directory of Bristol of 1830: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/GLS/Bristol/ABBOTtoDUFFETT.html On the following Bristol Information web page, there's a reference to Mrs Sanderson's School for Young Ladies being originally at Summer Hill House, St. George's: http://www.bristolinformation.co.uk/srch/srchit.asp?gdoc=el&first=400&howmany=200&data=&field=&match=and&dir=Next+200&mde=list&category=all On this page there's also reference to a newspaper advertisement of July 1865 in which Miss Sanderson informed friends and pupils of the removal of her establishment from Summer Hill to 9 Berkeley Square. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com