A happy New Year to all - did you see the fireworks from Sydney? A maternal surname, BULLION/De BULLIONS/BULLIONS has been traced back to PERTH, PERTHSHIRE, SCOTLAND, with a recorded marriage of WILLIAM BULLIONS to JANET HOWIE in 1755 at ST. MARTINS Church PERTHSHIRE. It is difficult to find the ancestor as several families of BULLIONS existed in PERTH prior to this event. Family folklore has it that original De BULLION came from FRANCE/BELGIUM/NETHERLANDS as Hugenot. There is a village of 'BULLION' (spelling?) in northern FRANCE, near BELGIUM. I seek assitance in 1. Establishing if there is a HUGENOT connection and 2. the ancestor of WILLIAM BULLIONS. Eric Leggett