Hello Somerset listers: As a 4th generation Californian whose family moved to the Colonies in the 1600s, I find I am looking across the pond to earlier years for information - RECORDS -about my family. I would be most appreciative if any of you who are more knowledgable of this area can help me find the records. The names I am specifically searching for records are: James Boeve (and his daughter, Elizabeth Boeve); Sir (Captain) William Hinton who married Elizabeth; and any children they may have had. I found information (published in various books as well as British Archives) about these families and I am now trying to find BMD records - not as easily found. What I am sending is probably way too much information for the list - sorry but better I state this here than have some of you spend time re-researching what I already found. Boeve, James (Jacobus) was born 1622 in London. He was a Merchant of London and Flanders. These records I have as well as his Will - naming only his surviving wife, Margaret (Cressett) and daughter, Cornelia - by his second wife. James Boeve moved from England to Flanders as well as Brussells, and other places in Europe. What is not known is where and when he actually lived at any particular time during the Civil War. He lived 'off and on' in Devonshire and Somerset after 1652 which is where it is said he built a home in Simonsbath (McDermot's Forest of Exmoor and History of the Siderfin family of West Somerset). This would be where he moved after his first wife, Susanna died 1649 in the Netherlands. He brought two known daughters with him, Margaret and Hester - both baptised in London. These daughters must have lived in Somerset for some time during their childhood. One of these 'girls' is probably his daughter, Elizabeth Boeve (born between 1638-1649) who married another of my ancestors, Sir (Captain) William Hinton. However, no records are found for her birth, marriage or death under the name Elizabeth. Nothing is found to verify this in records, only in the literature (not acceptable as 'proof' genealogically) - she married, probably in Netherlands - these records may have been destroyed in WW2 or in the Hague? Elizabeth Boeve married Sir William Hinton who was Captain of the Ship Adventurer and a business associate of her father, James Boeve. He sailed into ports in West England counties as well as London and European ports as would seem logical for him - Devon / Somerset / Bristol, Gloucester and Wales - Pembrokeshire are mentioned in the literature. He sailed the Atlantic so any port is possible. Sir William Hinton (born in Wiltshire 1639) was grandson of Sir Thomas Hinton who headed the London (Investment) Company that funded Jamestown, Virginia. I do not have records (proof) of any children they might have had. One of these children MAY be my ancestor, George Hinton, who is said to have been 'from West England' - nice and precise. In Pennsylvania, about 1717, he married Percis (probably Boone) with whose family he is said to have sailed from Exeter, Devonshire. James Boeve's second wife, Isobelle de Vischer also lived in Simonsbath - they married in London, 1653. Where their two children were born is unknown, Cornelia Boeve in 1656 and William Boeve in 1657 - London or Simonsbath? Is this where Isobelle died? These four children are the only names I find as born to James Boeve - what about Elizabeth? James Boeve and his third wife, Margaret Cressett lived at Simonsbath until she and James moved to Cheam,Surrey where he died in 1695 and Margaret in 1714. Margaret sold the remainder of the Exmoor forest lease and house (Simonsbath) to Robert Siderfin of Luxborough. This home is now a hotel/lodge. Also, Sir William's father, conveniently named Sir William, spent time in Devonshire and Somerset during the end of the Civil War - he was a Royalist who was Provider of the Queen's Wardrobe (1664) - which office bankrupted him since he was never repaid for his expenditures. I am hoping there is someone - a family member would make me jump for joy - or even anyone with this information - I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you all so very much. Margie Hinton in California - [email protected]