As a postscript to what Jan and Anne have written about Rayne: Older records (OPRs, KS records, Poor Law, 19th-cent civil BDM, Census) generally define locations in terms of the Parish in which they lay. Unfortunately, these parishes do not appear on modern maps (including the Ordnance Survey). So if you go looking for them on Multimap or Streetmap, you may well not find them. As it happens, the parish of Rayne does contain places called Old Rayne, New Rayne, North Rayne and Kirkton of Rayne, so you may find these. But many parishes do not contain any village or single location with the same name as the parish. To stand any chance of locating these, your first port of call (as I may have suggested before!) should be the GENUKI Gazetteer. (www.genuki.org.uk/contents and scroll down - also available via many individual County and Parish pages). This has been compiled specifically to aid genealogical research, and is based on placenames from old maps, old printed gazetteers, and Census data. Gavin Bell