Hi Cath, Thanks for the reply. It appears that we do not have a connection. Btw I have just, 9 Dec, received the digest dd 30 Nov! David B -----Original Message----- From: eng-westmorland-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-westmorland-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of eng-westmorland-request@rootsweb.com Sent: 30 November 2008 22:55 To: eng-westmorland@rootsweb.com Subject: ENG-WESTMORLAND Digest, Vol 3, Issue 227 Today's Topics: 1. WOOFF (David and Mary Bossenger) 3. Re: WOOFF (Cath Wooff) 7. Re: WOOFF (GG) Message: 3 Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:29:04 -0000 From: "Cath Wooff" <cath@wooff.co.uk> Subject: Re: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] WOOFF To: <eng-westmorland@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <1F06ABEA42FC4E3BB8304C5C449CDF2D@CathPC> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Hi David They aren't names I've come across yet but with that surname in Westmorland, the probabilities are fairly high that there's a connection somewhere in the dim and distant. I'm descended from Nicholas WOOF and Sarah STAGG who married 12 Mar 1770 in Lowther, through their son Joseph WOOF [b.c.1780 Lowther] and Mary LANGHORN [b.c.1783 Kirkby Thore] who married 6 July 1811 at Kirkby Thore. regards Cath