4 August 2004 Sandy, Re your DORE - BRIGHT - WILLIAMS connections, I have: Mary WILLIAMS (b. pre-1747), d/o George WILLIAMS and Lyddia = Richard DORE William WILLIAMS (b. c 1782, Newport, d. 1840, Niton = 20/8/1807 Jane BRIGHT (c.1786) Maria BRIGHT (1765 - 1836) = Henry Harry DORE (1759-1823), s/o William DORE and Jane WOODFORD Their daughter Jane, b.18/6/1792 Of interest to me, I also have: James DORE = 17/4/1762, Mary DOWNER, Godshill Stephen DORE = 1/11/1804, Brighstone, Sarah COOKE William DORE = Mary STONE. Daughter was Elizabeth. Richard Lawton Adelaide, Australia At 05:13 AM 1/08/2004, you wrote: >Hello :) I am trying to clarify the different Dore Clans around the >IOW. My husbands lineage is out of Norton, Freshwater, Yarmouth areas >...however while I'm focusing on those areas... I am also learning far >more than I planned on about ALL the Dores in IOW as early as >1500-1700's. I would invite you to contact me thru this list so that the >information can be saved online forever for others to find someday. I'm >working with another cousin (living in England) and we've collected quite >a collection of names. Please feel free to send us 2-4 generations of >names and we would be happy to try and match you into a line we've >collected...which may or may not link to our family of Dores.