On Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:57:28 +0100, Ian Sage <ian.sage@tiscali.co.uk> wrote: > Goodness Josephine, you've excelled yourself. The records you've > identified seem to include a significant landowning SAGE family, and a > possibly related group of folks around the city of Gloucester. I will > certainly need to study these sources more closely to extract all the > background. Hi Ian, Thanks for your response. I knew you'd be pleased:-) You know how I enjoy ferreting in the records rather than doing the mundane things I should be doing! Any minute now I'm expecting my other half to send me an e-mail asking me to make him a cup of tea. > Many thanks for taking so much trouble looking out these records for me > - not only for the SAGE > references, but also pointing me toward some interesting places to > search for other information. It's always a pleasure to help a distant relative by marriage such as yourself:-) You have also pointed me in the direction of finding my copy of Hailes Abbey Gloucestershire: The Story of a Medieval Abbey by D. Winkless. I had to search for it as it wasn't in its usual place. I was invited to attend the launch of this book at Hailes Abbey. My signed copy indicates that this took place on 20th. June 1990, a long time ago, now. I love going to Hailes Abbey for its peaceful atmosphere. My first visit to Hailes was as a child and I have gone there often since then. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com