Hi, everyone -- This is in reply to a post from Barbara <BHHolt@xtra.co.nz> on 11 March concerning the surname LA HAYE or DE LA HAYE and also location of the same name in France. If you do a Place Search for La Haye in France on the LDS website (www.familysearch.org) the following list of place names will come up -- La Haye, Seine-Maritime La Haye, Vosges La Haye-Piquenot, Calvados La Haye-Aubrée, Eure La Haye-Malherbe, Eure La Haye-de-Calleville, Eure La Haye-de-Routot, Eure La Haye-le-Comte, Eure Le Haye-du-Theil, Eure La Haye-Saint-Sylvestre, Eure La Haye-Descartes, Indre-er-Loire Les Hayes, Loir-et-Cher La Haye-Bellefond, Manche La Haye-Comtesse, Manche La Haye-Pesnel, Manche La Haye-d'Ectot, Manche La Haye-du-Puits, Manche Haye-Pesnel, Manche Hayes, Moselle La Haye-des-Allemands, Moselle (For those who do not know how to do a Place Search, click on Family History Library Catalog on main page of LDS site and then select Place Search and type in the location you are interested in. This is a good way to find out what records LDS holds for a particular location.) Concerning the DE LA HAYE surname in the extracts I posted on 11 March -- Barbara, that was from the Walloon Church at Canterbury, not Southampton. You are right in your interpretation of "tost" -- in other words, the child died soon after the baptism. Spelling is often quite changeable and fluid in these old sources. As for looking in that register for other (DE) LA HAYE surnames, have you tried doing a search through the IGI? Bear in mind that all the records of the French churches which the Huguenot Society of London has published -- the Canterbury Walloon Church being one of them -- are on the IGI (at least according to info given to me by Stephen Massil, at the Hug. Library in London.) Of course, there are no burials or deaths included on the IGI. And baptisms would include only the name of the child and parents and similarly, marriages would include only the names of the bride and groom without all those wonderful other names of witnesses, relatives, parents, siblings, etc. which the French church records are full of. Whether you find anything of interest on the IGI or not, it's always essential (I feel) to check the original sources themselves because there is *so much* that is *not* in the IGI. If anyone is not sure which French churches have been published by the Huguenot Soc. of London, please go to the website at http://www.island.net/~andreav/index.html and look for the heading Organizations & Addresses in the Beyond the Basics section. Click on that heading and then select British Isles. You will find information there about the Society, including a complete list of their Quarto series publications, which include the church records. Hope this helps a bit. Andrea