Joy, Go to www.familysearch.org and search using just the surname. It gives 156 entries with all variant surname spellings. You can have a lot of fun sorting them into families. Most look to be from 1600's If you search specifically for Mary Pethward there are only two possible births although others may not be recorded. Try Searching for occurrences of the surname in 1841 and 1851 census using Soundex. You might also look for the surname in submitted trees and surname lists at places like Rootsweb and Ancestry. Peter in Sydney