This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.canada.newfoundland.notredamebay/17.19.13.1.1.2.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I believe I have. It is very confusing, with Cull, Cole, Cole(s) and Curll in the same parish! I painstakingly made separate lists of all the Cull entries, all the Coll entries and all the Coles entries in the registers, and it became clear that Coles were and entirely different family. so are Coll on the whole but one or two of the early Cull entries are down as Coll, probably because Cull was unfamiliar in the parish. In general I get the impression that final -s on surnames was largely optional (eg Grove and Groves would be the same family). In fact, once you weed it out it becomes clear that the Cull situation in Burley was quite simple. It all started with the arrival of Richard Cull's children in the Ringwood baptismal register in the 1730s. Fortunately, the registers note which individuals belonged to Burley as opposed to Ringwood. Richard's second son, also Richard, died in the same year as his father, 1755, so only Joseph and Maurice married and produced children. So there really aren't a lot of Cull lines in Burley and it's all pretty straightforward. Any Newfoundland Culls out there??? Marie