_____ "Would anyone on the List be ableto help me with the following question? Kevenhuller Skinner ran a goldsmith's shop in London until sometime after 1777 when he seems to have moved to Kent. I found this advertisement on the net: To be Let to the Best Bidder: (and May be Entered on Immediately) on a Lease for 21 Years, Commencing at Michaelmas Next, at a Clear Rent, Free from All Deductions Whatever, at the Fountain Inn, in Canterbury, on Wednesday May 31, 1780, at Four O'clock in the Afternoon, All the Messuage Or Tenement, Now Divided Into Two Messuages Or Tenements, Together with Nineteen Acres, Two Roods, Twenty-three Perches of Land, (more Or Less) Lying and Being in the Parish of St. Michael, Harbledown, Near Canterbury, in the County of Kent, Late in the Occupation of Mr. Kevenhuller Skinner http://books.google.com.au/books/about/To_be_Let_to_the_Best_Bidder.html?id= 8QZmNQEACAAJ <http://books.google.com.au/books/about/To_be_Let_to_the_Best_Bidder.html?id =8QZmNQEACAAJ&redir_esc=y> &redir_esc=y By 1781 he seems later to have moved to North Lane in Canterbury where his children were baptised at HolyCross. His will makes no mention of this land. My question is why would a seemingly successful trained goldsmith, move to the country onto what seems farmland and then to Canterbury where his will describes him as "Engineer and broker" (whatever those terms mean)? " David Cornelius