Hello, listers -- This is a (very late and slow) response to the 25 July post from Mike <michael@hare9919.freeserve.co.uk> re: surname HARE (possibly once DE LA HAIRE and ?Walloon in origin?). But, it's another example of how the IGI on the LDS web site can turn up some interesting hints so I hope this is helpful. I realize that none of this info is about Bristol or Somerset locations, which Mike is interested in but England was (and is) a small island and I personally feel that a search for refugee ancestors should be done in all UK locations. I've certainly found my ancestors scattered in various places. Also, there are about two dozen postings in the list archives which mention general info re: Bristol, and about a dozen for Somerset. As well, Cyndi's List at www.cyndislist.org now has a section on Bristol Huguenots. You can go directly to that at: http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/pericles/french/huguenot.htm. Now to the IGI. For a start, there were *a lot* of listings with first name Isaac or Abraham. Thus my purely subjective and unsubstantiated conclusion (call it a gut feeling) that there may well have been Huguenot or Walloon origins to this name. As I've mentioned before, I've found that the names Abraham and Isaac pop up regularly among French refugee families, even generations after settling in England. Surname spellings varied -- HARE, HAIRE, DE HAIRE, DE HERE, etc. Also, there are quite a few listing for locations where Huguenots/Walloons were known to have settled (Thorney in Cambridgeshire, also Lincolnshire, and some in London). On the other hand there were also a lot of listings for Scotland, and a few in Ireland. But how about this one? Baptism in 1606 of Isaac DE HERE, son of Abraham & Barbe, at the Threadneedle Street Church, London. There may be other listings in the IGI under this surname (or variants) at the Threadneedle Street Church but I didn't look for them. The next step would be to have a look at the actual records of the Threadneedle Street Church (because the IGI is only an index). And then to try to connect up that information with details which are known in more recent time periods (often not easy). Has anyone out there had good results with the IGI? If so, I hope they will post. Andrea