This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/kIZ.2ACEB/652.668.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Yes, Ken, I have found GORD(E), GOARD(E), GOAD(E) and very rarely GOOD in Cornwall. I doubt their is a connection between GOOD and GOADE but can't really prove it one way or the other. I can only say that mine are very rarely GOOD. That sounds like a moral judgement <grin> I am descended from James GOADE m.1676 Gwennap Jane CROWSIER widow. As the first book of the Gwennap Parish Registers is lost I have been unable to go back any further with this line. Unfortunately I have not yet been to England. I am Australian. One day I hope to get there to see where my roots are. Christine