Hi ??????? If you are not already subscribed you may find http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/ITA/ITALY.html Worthwhile Have you checked the rootsweb archives? there are 47 hits for PONCIA, I don't know if any of those are yours as you haven't told us your name There are seven hits for PONCIA on the London Gazettes (google finds it easily) There are 58 hits for PONCIA on the National Archives including the following HO Records created or inherited by the Home Office, Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies Division within HO Aliens and Immigration, Denization and Naturalisation, Community Relations, Community Programmes and Equal Opportunities Departments HO 1 Home Office: Denization and Naturalisation Papers and Correspondence Subseries within HO 1 Denizations and Naturalizations HO 1/11 Denization Papers Record Summary Scope and content Denization Papers: Garnier, Paul (Minor), from Paris. Mainwaring, Laura Maria Valburga Julia, from Baden. Simon, Louis Pierre, from France. Hope, Charles, from China. Sola, Augustus, from Switzerland. Poncia, Peter, from Italy. Duplenne, Pierre Francois, from France. Date of Letters Patent: 1 June 1837. Covering dates 1837 Availability Open Document, Open Description, Normal Closure before FOI Act: 30 years Held by The National Archives, Kew And Will of Peter Poncia, Gentleman of Edgbaston near Birmingham , Warwickshire 09 January 1857 PROB 11/2245 Will of John Poncia, General Factor of Birmingham , Warwickshire 12 February 1842 PROB 11/1958 Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) >I am looking for Peter Poncia b. ca. 1790 Como Italy. I have no further > details about his life in Italy but he was shown as a widower at his > second > marriage pre 1841 Was shown as hardware dealer in Birmingham in 1841. I > saw > a vague reference connecting him with the Tala brand kitchenware. I am > interested in his business affairs as he was a wealthy man when he died in > 1856. I am an Australian descendant of his son Peter b.1813 at Worcester. > Any help please.