I've got as far back in this line as Alexander LEFORT/E whose marriage licence in 1708 gives him as a bachelor, aged 37, making him born in 1671. At the time of his marriage he was living in St Anne Soho. He appears to have been employed by Gilbert Burnet the Bishop of Salisbury, as he was buried from the Bishop's house in 1712, and he was also a witness to the Bishop's will. I've searched records for St Martin in the Fields, from which parish St Anne was formed, and tried to find details of the household of Bishop Burnet. Jeanette. >>From time to time we have 'quiet times', on the list, and it's always nice > when someone has a particularly difficult 'brick wall' that we can help > knock down. > > I thought, maybe, in this quiet period, we might be able to do that now, > knock down a few of those walls. > > We have some great people on the list, full of knowledge, and they have > been > willing helpers so many times. >