Hello -- This is a response to the inquiry from Malinda <mthiesse@swbell.net> on 4 Dec re: possible variants for DOUTHIT in the Threadneedle St. Church tésmoignages, ie. DOUTH, DU THOIS, DUTHOIT, DUTHOITH, DUTHOU, DUTILH, DU TOICT, DUTOIT, DU TOITH, DU TOT (TALBOT), DUTUILLET. Malinda, I believe I sent you the details of these names from this source in an off-list message sometime in the last couple of months, when I had the film at my local FHC (it has since been returned to Salt Lake). I have checked through my e-mails and can't find the message containing that info so I must have deleted it. I am hoping that you haven't!! If you have also deleted the info, it sounds like Roy may be able to help you. For anyone else wondering, and as Roy has mentioned, the Huguenot Society of London has published the tésmoignages records as well as church registers of Threadneedle. They are in various volumes of what is known as the Quarto Series (please see past postings on this topic in list archives). Major university libraries and archives sometimes do have this series on their shelves. Alternately, they have also been filmed by LDS and can be order/viewed there if you have a local FHC (Family History Centre) near you. The LDS site (www.familysearch.org) lists geographical locations of FHCs world-wide. Malinda, you also mentioned the surname MARTHIN as a possible variant of MARTIN or MARTAIN (also in the tésmoignages) and asked for my view re: connections between these names. I am flattered to be asked but I'm no expert. All I can say to this is: "There's always a possibility. Don't rule anything out. Explore all avenues." However, I must also say that MARTIN is an extremely common French surname, just as it is in English. For example, information on the website International Surname Statistics at: http://home.newnet.co.uk/dana/webpjd/offstats/darluweb.htm lists MARTIN as the most common surname in France from 1891-1940. For all I know, that is still the case today and was also true back in the time period we are looking at in the tésmoignages (1600-1700's). Andrea