Hello -- I'd like to thank those listers who have been posting or re-posting their surname interests over the last week. The New Year is the perfect time to do this, don't you think? So, if you've posted in the past but not recently, please think about doing so again. For one thing, we have many new subscribers who didn't see your post the first time round. And if you are one of those who haven't yet sent your first post to the list, I hope you'll do so soon. Also, would everyone please check their surname listings on the H-W-E Surnames List on the list website at http://www.island.net/~andreav/index.html -- it's in the Beyond the Basics section. If anything there is inaccurate or incomplete, please post to the list to let me know. Lastly, if you haven't got any of your surnames included on the Surnames List but would like them added, now's the time to do it (on the list please and in format shown on H-W-E Surnames List). Lastly, just to make sure I practice what I preach <g>, here are my own surname interests. 1) OLIVE -- starting with my maternal grandfather, I have traced this line back to my 8x great grandparents, Jacques OLIVE and his wife Marie VERRE. Jacques was born c1645, possibly in France; mother's name possibly Jeanne DE BUIRE. Marie VERRE was born c1650; father's name possibly Samuel, mother's name possibly Jane. Jacques & Marie had eight children baptised at the Walloon Church in Canterbury between 1672-1690. Descent from this line gets a little fuzzy due to two grandsons of Jacques' and Marie's. Both were also named Jacques; both were born within a few years of each other -- a) Jacques, son of Jacques and Marie (nee Federbe) was baptised at the Canterbury Walloon church in April 1714 and b) Jacques baptised Apr 1711, also at the Walloon Church, son of Jean (John) and Sarah (nee BLANCHARD). So which Jacques (James) was it who married Catherine POUT (POUTRE or LE POUTRE) 13 Aug 1738 at Canterbury St. George? There are some OLIVE researchers who favour the Jacques born in 1711 whereas I lean towards the one born 1714. In either case, my descent is still from Jacques OLIVE and Marie VERRE. Branches of this OLIVE family are to be found in the records of Guisnes, FRA and also in London, including Threadneedle Street. My own branch settled in the coastal Kentish towns of Seasalter and Whitstable in the mid-1700's where they were oyster dredgers and/or mariners (and probably smugglers!) for generations. 2) FREMOULT -- anglicized spelling of FREMAULT, FREMAU, FREMAU(L)X, which is listed in the Index of Northern French and Walloon Names in John Peters' book, A Family from Flanders. I am specifically searching for my 6x great grandmother, Elizabeth FREMOULT who married Elias EDENDEN 14 Jne 1736 in Seasalter, Kent, ENG. I have found two Elizabeths baptised around the right time period but have not determined which is the "right one". One was baptised 6 Jan 1706/7 at Canterbury St. Mildred, dau of John & Jane (nee KISSER) who were married 1704 St. Mildred. The other was baptised 27 Jly 1715 at Canterbury All Saints, dau of Samuel & Elizabeth who had nine children baptised in Canterbury -- between1709-1718 at All Saints and 1719-20 at St. Mildred. 3) BLANCHET -- the Huguenot connection for this one is "only a hunch" and concerns my 8x great grandfather Vincent BLANCHET, born c1665. I have found BLANCHET names in Huguenot records but no trace of Vincent. He first pops up with his marriage on 14 Mar 1689/90 to Mary STONE at Godmersham, Kent, ENG. Nine children baptised in nearby Challock (which was Mary's home parish), between1691-1710. Both Vincent and Mary died at Challock and are buried there (1740's). The BLANCHET name gradually changed to BRANCHET(T) in the mid/late 1700's. All BRANCHETTs today, in England and elsewhere (U.S, Australia), are descended from Vincent BLANCHET. I think I'm finally starting to come out of my own doldrums.....<g>. Andrea