Hi David Did you find the material from the Southampton Notorial Protest Books 1756-1810 (published version Southampton University 1973) which Viktoria Turner mentioned in HANTS-LIFE back in March 2002 re your James HUNT, Southampton brewer? I am interested in that footnote "giving some detail about the HUNTs who were brewers and brewhouse and inn lessees" but the publication is unlikely to be available in Australia. My great2 grandfather was William Arthur HUNT (1809-1848) born in Hythe, probably Hants. who came out to Australia in 1827 as a Pte. in the 39th Regiment. He transferred to the military mounted police and became Sgt. of the NSW Governor's Bodyguard and later Chief Constable in Parramatta and then in Goulburn, NSW. His parents were probably the Arthur HUNT and Jane MEATYARD married in Eling on 9 October 1805 where he appears to have been baptised on 18 June 1909. I've been unable to progress back beyond there. However, we have two longstanding leads both involving the grog business in the Romsey-Southampton area of Hants. - hence my interest in the pointer provided by Viktoria. First, for at least 3 generations our family has been in contact with the family of Arthur Thomas HUNT (born 1845, Southampton) and his brother Walter HUNT with whom we understand we are related in some as yet unexplained way. Arthur Thomas HUNT was a wine merchant who in 1881 was living with his family at 18 Waterloo Place, Southampton All Saints. He also owned another property "Laurel Bank" near Little Testwood. Arthur Thomas HUNT's wife was Kate ENGLEDON, also born in Southampton and interestingly, one of my William Arthur HUNT's grandaughters was named Kate Ingledon BROADHEAD. In another 'co-incidence', my great grandfather, Arthur Moses HUNT (1844-1880) was a wine merchant in Goulburn, NSW until the vines were decimated by phylloxera. The second lead is the following (semi-legible) list of names etc written in a child-like hand inside a copy of Parkinson's Endeavour Journal that has been in our family for at least 3 generations: Moses H., Moses HUNT, Louisa HUNT, A.C. HUNT, Miss Louisa HUNT is a very bad girl, Miss Matilda HUNT is a very bad girl, John, Mr HUNT Romsey Hants., John HUNT Romsey Hants., Sarah HUNT, Mr Moses HUNT ?Queen's Head Inn Romsey, John LOVAL Romsey Hants., Robert HUNT Queen's Head Inn Romsey Hants., Moses HUNT Queen's Head Inn Romsey Hants., James HUNT Queen's Head Inn Romsey Hants., Matilda HUNT Queen's Head Inn Romsey Hants., Mrs HUNT the [illegible] House, ?Cabbage near Bath, Louisa HUNT ?Enuby Romsey Hants. I suspect the writer was the 'very bad girl', Louisa Annabel HUNT (born 1871), my great aunt who during WW1 married Arthur Cecil HUNT 8 months before he died from war wounds. Arthur Cecil was one of Arthur Thomas HUNT's sons and was believed by both families to be her cousin. While visiting Romsey in 2000 I checked the LTVASG's pubs booklet but it shows no HUNTs at the Queen's Heads in 8 Bell St. or 7-9 The Hundred, Romsey. The only Romsey HUNT innkeeper I've found is Richard HUNT, Corn Factor, Maltster & Innkeeper, at the 'Three Tuns' in Pigot's 1823-4 Directory. Do you know if any of the above names appear in the footnote mentioned by Viktoria or do they otherwise ring a bell with you or any other HANTS-LIFE lister? Regards Colin -- Colin Roe, Torrens ACT Australia