This message is for Franklin Rembert. Hello Franklin I tried to reply directly to your personal email only to have it returned twice so I have tried again for the third time. I am having problems with another friend in US with none of my letters reaching her. If this one is returned then I shall post my 'addition' to the reading list via rootsweb. and here it is, I do apologise:- Thank you for your letter and kind words though I am sorry that you may not be able to get any of the books. I am positive that I noticed the Thomas Middleton titles on the Mormon list a few years ago. I copied it but have no idea at all where I put it. What a terrible, terrible tragedy about Columbia. We were away in France these past five days and only got a belated account. How very distressing for you to have experienced hearing the explosion. We do not live in a easy world. Do you live near Dallas? I live near Oxford, UK. I was born in Manchester but only began to know and explore the area over the past six years while I was researching my family. I am actually a Hyde of the Haughton bunch, my gr. gr. gr. grandfather was Clerk of the Chapel/Church of St. Lawrence Denton 1765-1788. This is what I tried to send the first time:- I have not done much regarding the early Hydes who emigrated to U.S. although I do, of course, have sketches on Edward Hyde Governor of North Carolina 1710-1712. He was the Hyde of Norbury and Hyde who sold up the entire Norbury estate around 1690 fearing "utter ruine" 30th. Dec. 1709 the family sailed from Plymouth to Virginia and the Albermarle area, via New York His descendants, the Hyde-Clarke's later returned to Hyde and re-established themselves in Hyde and Denton. In 1663 Henry Hyde, 11th. son of Robert Hyde of Norbury and Hyde and his second wife Anne Hyde daughter of Robert Hyde of West Hatch, Wilts. and part of the Clarendon line, was in Maryland, America. Another brother Lawrence of Ballough Loughlan Castle, Ireland, also went to US I believe. The actual Earl of Clarendon was a descendant of the Hydes of Denton. There is one more book which you may be able to find and is a good read: The Shadow of a Crown. The life story of James 11 of England and V11 of Scotland. by Meriol Trevor, 1988 published by Constable. ISBN 0 09 467850 2 This describes the courtship, marriage and family of Anne Hyde eldest child and only daughter of Edward Earl of Clarendon, to the future James 11. and their daughters Mary & Anne Stuart. Finally, there is someone over your way, who has a lot of information and knowledge about the southern Hydes, William who married Hester Trott abt.1630, & Samuel, who went to New London Connecticut, etc. and your own Hyde Hall. He gave me a web site but I no longer seem to have it. They were the sons of William Hyde & Beatrice Calverly of Norbury and Hyde It is two years ago but his email address then was robert5@uswest.net Good luck, Sue