At 05:25 16/03/2000 -0700, you wrote: >Hi Tom: >Caught your email to JOLLY-L@rootsweb.com. There has been various published >genealogies over the years tying Joll(e)y's to the Jolliffe family line in >England and Virginia/West Virginia. These genealogies are wrong. They were two >separate family lines and never were related. The problem also is that in some >of the Jolliffe wills and land deeds you will see both Jolliffe and Jolly used in >the same document. In wills particularly, this says that the person signing the >will did not write it. Hi all, Interesting point that Erv raises here. In our JOLLY line we have a JOLLY who married a JOLIFFE ! Imagine a Cornishman saying a name to a Scotsman or a Yorkshireman etc - the implications of the written word is mind boggling to say the least! Kay