Is this the way to post a message??? Although I have been following this site for several months, this is my first posting - didn't think I had anything of relevance. I have found the Huguenot/Walloon exchanges quite interesting as well as informative, and am greatly impressed with Andrea Vogel's work. I am particularly interested in those concerning the name SEAY and its variants, because SEAY is the surname of my grandmother's family. They considered themselves to be descended from French-speaking Calvinists from England and France, whose name had been pronounced to rhyme with "say" (which seems to have been the usual pronunciation in England during the 16th through part of the 18th century of words like "sea", "tea", etc.) Anecdotal evidence, to be sure, but that was my starting point for research on the SEAYS a number of years ago. I found little information of help in France, but did learn that SAIS/SAYE was the name of a family from Flanders. In information found in publications of the Huguenot Society of London, as well as in a number of Belgian sources dealing with the Calvinist uprisings in 16th - 17th century Flanders I found quite a bit of information about this family as well as families with whom they were associated, both in France and in England. The SAIS family (also spelled SAYE, SAY, SAIE, SEY, SEYE, SEE, SEES, SAYES, SAYZE, DE SAIDES) were from Tournais and the surrounding area of the Tournaisis, and were merchants, artisans, etc., in the wool trade. (It is intriguing to me that WICRES, mentioned as a possible site for the SEAYS in the 17th century was in the same general area.) Many of the SAIS family were active in Calvinism; some were on the list of the condemned in FLANDERS, were either executed or exiled, usually fleeing to England. By early 1568 some appear on the various tax and census returns of the Tudor and early Jacobean reigns collected by Irene Scoloudi. I found their names also in records of foreign churches in London, Canterbury, Norwich, Thorney-le-Sokem Colchester (SEIJS, SEY, SIJS, etc) and in the latter 17th century in Guisnes. English parish records were not available to me, nor did I find traces of SEAY/SAYE, etc. after ca. 1660, so I reached a dead end - did they immigrate to the British colonies, or are they even relevant? Wordy though this is, it is a condensation of the many notes I have, but I have finally come to my point. Has anyone on the list done research on this Walloon line as a possible source for the SEAY name? I would be glad to hear what people think of this, and of course, share any information I have that might be helpful. Joanne Deane Sieger