Sue Ellen Ash wrote..... >>In the past few years of researching the CAVE family, we have learned that our family's ancestors probably came into Virginia out of England in the late 1600's or early 1700's. We have not found the proof of our direct lineage into America. The CAVE surname dates back hundreds of years in Europe; and many researchers feel it is Scotch-Irish in origin. Others feel the name is either French or German Huguenots. Regardless of the origin of the surname CAVE, we know that there was one Wymarus deCAVE , who came into North Yorkshire, England with William the Red, as early as 1069, and was given a Manor in Yorkshire. The records show that "The Lordship of Manor deCAVE, Lord of North and South CAVE, Cliffe, Stanton, Newland, Skalley, and Manor of Waldingstone in County of Ebor," left all this property to his brother, Jordayne deCAVE, in the 7th year of the Reign of William Rufus, called William the Red. This Manor is still there today and was recently made into an upper class "Bed & Breakfast" There is a web site about it, which is very FUN to check out. Some of the CAVE descendants have gone there to spend the night.<< I PRESUME you know, Sue, that there is a longstanding one-name study for CAVE, run by a friend of mine, Hugh Cave? If you didn't, I can let you have his address. BTW, I don't know whether you have seen it on your TV news over there, but large areas of England are under water this week as a result of some of the worst floods in living memory. Yorkshire and, in particular, the beautiful and historic city of York, has been particularly badly hit. Rivers are swollen way above their normal levels as a result of heavy rainfall and storms. Those who live along the banks of the River Ouse in the centre of York have flood water up to their bedroom windows. Roy Stockdill Editor, The Journal of One-Name Studies The Stockdill Family History Society (Guild of One-Name Studies, FedFHS) STOCKDILL PREST YELLOW BOLTON WORSNOP GIBSON MIDGLEY BRACEWELL SHACKLETON BRADLEY MOODY in Yorkshire North & West Ridings MEAD YOUNG in Somerset, Wiltshire & Gloucestershire Web page of the Stockdill Family History Society:- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:- http://www.one-name.org ”Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you. If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Canon Sydney Smith (scholar and humorist 1771-1845)