Hi: I recently had a breakthrough on my BUBBA/BUBBERS research. After posting a message about my Bubbers surname on the Bubbers Message Board at www.familyhistory.com I have made contact with 3 researchers working on this surname in London, England and 1 from Germany who has written a book on the Bubbers of Germany and USA. I have shared the Bubbers info that I have on the families in East Kent and particularly in Sandwich. We haven't been able to connect the London branches to the main family at Sandwich yet but we think they must all be related, as Bubbers isn't a very common surname. The names Abraham and Isaac occur in these families as they do in the ones in Sandwich. These other researchers have also been in contact with another researcher of this surname (not on the internet) and they passed along to me a very important piece of info, which he had found. He states: "About 1579 a man named BUBBERS, grandfather of an Abraham BUBBERS, left from Rotterdam and came to Margate, England. The reason for the departure from Holland was the pursuit of the Huguenots by the Spaniards. This departure is in a church book in Margate. The entry took place on an arrangement of the Queen at that time, Elizabeth I, that all foreign immigrants were to be registered." I had assumed the BUBBA/BUBBERS of Sandwich had originated in the Netherlands but this would seem proof plus a time period which I didn't know. There were 2 men, John BUBBA and David BUBBA who left Wills in 1623 and 1625 in Sandwich. They were both gardeners. David BUBBA was listed in 1622 as a Stranger of Sandwich. In his Will he mentions the Dutch Church. David had a son named Abraham who I believe was the Abraham who married Margaret Peirson in 1633 at St. John Margate. Now I understand what the connection might have been with Margate and assume he is the Abraham mentioned in the note. Perhaps it was his father, David, who arrived in 1579 at Margate (rather than a grandfather) and later moved to Sandwich. One of the other researchers tried to find this "book" in Margate church recently but was unable to do so. I'd like to find the original entry in the document to confirm exactly what it said. Can anyone suggest what document or book this entry might have come from? Would it be something that the Huguenot Society would have published? I've not found any mention of a Huguenot or Walloon community in Margate (St. John Thanet) so perhaps they didn't stay there very long. The main community seems to have been at Sandwich. P.S. If everyone on this list posted their surnames and a little info about their brickwall every couple of months there would be plenty of messages to read. With new members joining all the time you can never be sure whether someone on the list might have access to a resource or info about your family. Success stories like mine might give encouragement to other listers and give them an idea on how to locate new info on their surnames. Cheers. Janis Kirby London, Ontario, Canada sooty28@home.com