Dear All I wonder whether anyone can tell me whether the name BEDDIS figures in the Huguenots history? I was told many years ago that the "BEDDIS's" came over to England from France, with the Huguenots. I wonder whether there can be any substance to this statement? The BEDDIS name (at least my ancestors) comes from the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, and my people have lived there for as far back as I can trace. Unfortunately the Forest of dean was an Extraparochial area prior to the early to mid 1800's and my earlier ancestors have been mostly recorded in the parish of AWRE on the banks of the river Severn to the East of the Forest of Dean. My earliest known link is a marriage in 1703, but the earliest mention of a "BEDDIS (or BEDDES/BEDOES as it was then) in that parish is 1649. Prior to that date there is no mention of BEDOES/BEDDIS in that or neighbouring parishes, and I therefore wonder where they came from? Any help would be most gratefully received Best wishes Angela Gibson Sydney, Australia