Hi All, Blimey! That's an old English expression you don't hear much these days! I was amusing myself, as one does on a rainy Melbourne Cup Day Public Holiday, by rummaging through the IOW FHS for the name KING for a recent IOW acquaintance who spotted my old list of names for RANN... Did you know that in the period from 1837 to 2000, there were 671 marriages recorded for the name KING, of which 545 were new family names, married into the KING Family? How about that - and I thought my name (COOPER) was pretty common! Has anyone got any theories why there were so many KING families in IOW? Can they all have been followers or relatives from Osborne House? If anyone is interested in contacting me off list for KING marriages, or would prefer me to publish (progressively) the names, I'd be happy to oblige. Regards, Ron Cooper