Hello to all on the list -- This is in response to Lyn <lfaughey@ozemail.com.au> who posted on 21 Feb about her TOUZEAU surname in Plymouth, ENG c1770s. Naturally, Lyn wants to trace back farther. May I offer the following suggestions? Hopefully, they may provide more information about where to look and/or make inquiries? 1) Have you searched the records of the French Church at Plymouth? The Huguenot Society of London has published these records in Vol. 20 of their Quarto series. If you can't find this volume on the shelves of a major library or archives near you, it has been filmed by the LDS church on film # 0962137. Also, the records of this church should be on the IGI (as are all of those French Church records published by the Hug. Soc. of London). Go to the LDS website at www.familysearch.org. Select Search for Ancestors, then select IGI (International Genealogical Index), then type in the name TOUZEAU and see what comes up. 2) Since your Jacques TOUZEAU was apparently a clergyman, I wonder if the Hug. Society of London would know of him? Try contacting the Huguenot Library Librarian, Stephen Massil, at s.massil@ucl.ac.uk. The website for the Society is at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Library/huguenot.htm. 3) For information about the Huguenot settlement in Devon, go to: http://millenium.fortunecity.com/falmouth/566/devhugs1.htm. This includes links to further information. There is also a list of Devon Huguenot Surnames at http://millennium.fortunecity.com/falmouth/566/devhugs2.htm#Topofpage. It isn't a very long list but there is an invitation there for anyone researching other Huguenot names in Devon to contribute them to the surname list. I would recommend adding your TOUZEAU to it (as well as to HWE Surnames List on our website, by the way <g>). 4) The GENUKI site at http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/genuki/DEV/Plymouth/ has all kinds of general information about Plymouth. For example, the records for the Huguenot Church at Plymouth are listed as follows: Registers for 1733-78, 1791-1807 (C), 1734, 1740 (M), 1733-34 (B) with a PRO (Public Record Office) reference: RG 4/4623. Note that this church is cross-referenced to another church, that of Plymouth St Andrew, so it might be a good idea to search those records for further information. I am guessing but St. Andrew was probably a parish (ie. C of E) church which was heavily attended. 5) Don't forget to put surnames TOUZEAU and REPARON into any one of the genealogical search engines to see if you get any results. Such search engines can be found on the list website (http://www.island.net/~andreav/index.html) in the Beyond the Basics section (look for heading Search Engines). I hope this has been helpful not only to Lyn but to anyone else who is in a similar situation re: their research. Andrea