OK Kids - Sarah's has been searching the maps at the PCL again (Perry-Casteneda Library at UT Austin. No, I'm not a t-sip, but actually a maroon-blooded Aggie. But PCL DOES have a FANTASTIC collection of maps online!) check out http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/europe/United_Kingdom.GIF Northumberland County is in far NE England, right by the Scotland Border. About 80-90 miles S-SE of Edinburgh. (When the map comes up, click the frame once to the right, and once down, and Northumberland County should be very near the middle of the screen (on a 15 in monitor, anyway). Hope this helps! Sarah Joan Gardner wrote: > Recently while at the library I ran across the following which personally I think may be > a real clue for us: > Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly Historical & Genealogical > Magazine. > The Strother Family > .......(will not send all the page).......Alan del Strother, Lord of Lyham, in the > Parish of Chalton, County of Northumberland, England, had by a fine (Temp.23 Edward III) > 1349, 100 merke and half of the Manor of Lyham. He was High Sheriff of Northumberland > 1354-5 and married Constance de Lyham. Alan del Strother, son of Alan, Lord of Lyham, > was High Sheriff of Northumberland 1356-7 and Warden of the Castle of Shire of Roxburgh > in 1368 and in 1376 was succeeded in that command by Thomas Percy, Earl of > Northumberland, by the King's order "To hold them in the same manner that Alan del > Strother had holden them". Prior to this time, in 1369, he was appointed Bailiff of > Tindale and had custody of the Manors of Werk and Balester. He died in 1381, seized of > Kirkharle, Whalton, Barrington, Denon, Wallington, Whitchester, HAMRICK, Crookden, Sweet > Hope and lands in Lyham......... > Personally I believe this definitely places Hamricks in England at least by 1381.... > The Hamricks and Strothers were all around each other in the United States. > Does anyone have a good map of England????? > > Joan -- Sarah E. Hambrick [email protected] "There's enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?" - unknown