On 09/08/2011 18:29, Katherine Hocking wrote: > Hi, Try typing in Heraldic Visitations into Google and they may well turn > up. Cannot remember which areas are covered and records still in existance. > HV records are a bit slow to use but if I remember correctly it is possible > to find an index at the very end. Have used it for Welsh Records mostly. > Katherine > Hello Katherine, Many thanks indeed for this suggestion. Here again, plenty of material to keep me going for a while. The information I have found is quite sparse, and I wonder if your experience can help me a little more? Looking at, for example, the readily available 1623 Visitation of Gloucestershire I have found the records of the Albaney family, which begins with the marriage of John Albaney of Kingesholme to Ciceley. This could tie in with one of the records which Josephine pointed out. There are no dates given, but I count 6 generations from top to bottom of the tree, and if the bottom of the tree corresponds to 1623, we can guess that the top dates to perhaps 1440-ish. That's a likely 50-year discrepancy compared to the other source. Nevertheless, the connection seems good because of, for example, the correspondence of Eve, wife of Simon Cadle in the British History Online page, with Ebane, wife of Simond Cadull in the visitation as well as other parallels. Six generations could plausibly stretch an extra 50 years - even though several of the generations are through the female line, and concern the first born (or eldest surviving) child. But I can't quite make the accounts agree - possibly due to missing information rather than any contradiction. Do you know, are the bottoms of the trees in the visitation tables contemporary with the visitation date? How reliable do you regard the information, and are there good sources to supplement them? Most of the references I see, seem to be to Fine Rolls. I am beginning to regret not having paid attention in my school Latin classes! Any hints or advice would be most welcome. Kind regards, Ian