Hello to all on the list -- This is in response to a post on July 12 from Robert Adair <robertadair@btinternet.com> re: surnames MERILLION & MEURRILION, particularly in the Fens area of England (eg. Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, etc.) I believe that there about half a dozen posts in the list archives which mention this surname but always with spellings MORILLON, MORILON, MORILLION which I am assuming to be variants. To access these posts in the list archives, please go to this URL: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl , where you can type in the name of the list and then each of the spelling variants MORILLON, MORILON, MORILLION as key words. I particularly remember that this surname was mentioned in a post on 27 February with subject line: Sandtoft Chapel & Community, Lincolnshire, ENG. When first names Isaac and Abraham are used fairly consistently throughout generations, my feeling is that it is a fairly reliable indicator that the origins of that family were Huguenot or Walloon. However, I have no objective evidence to back this up. It might be a good idea to check the records of the Walloon church at Norwich to see if the surnames MERILLON and/or MORILLON and their variants pop up there. This is in Volume 1 of the Quarto series published by the Huguenot Society of London (The Walloons and their Church at Norwich, their History and Register, 1565-1832.) There is also at least one book that I know of on the subject of Huguenots/Walloons in the Lincolnshire area. That book is "Strangers in the Fens: Huguenot/Walloon communities at Thorney, Parson Drove, Guyhim and Sandtoft, and some adherants." by Trevor BEVIS, published in 1983, 42 pages long. The ISBN is 0901680206. Hope this helps. Andrea