This is from Elizabeth Howard who has asked me to post it on her behalf as rootsweb is not showing her mails . Perhaps if anyone has a solution they might care to help Elizabeth out. her findings are very interesting. On Slyford name origins I found a reference to a Slyford in Northumbria but Google is not playing ball with by showing it on a map. Rosie Hi Rosie , sorry to contact you direct but I sent two answers to the Slyford query and neither appeared on the Norfolk list. So yesterday I emailed the admin and that too is unanswered and so I am assuming that rootsweb has taken a dislike to my emails !!! I wondered if you could possibly pass on the findings of my hour or so with the Slyfords ? The first thing Ancestry had was a bapt of an Ursula Slyford in 1688 in London , I think St Benet, St Paul`s wharf, to John and Ursula Slyford . There is a will of an Ursula Slyford, but indexed as Vrsula Blyford ( ???) in which she mentions her cousin Elizabeth`s husband Peter le Neve of the Heralds Office . This man came from or retired to Gt Witchingham and that is the Norfolk connection !!!! then if you read Peter Slyford`s will , also on Ancestry , you will see he mentions a sister Ursula Hunt . So that I think ties them up . So they are a family of wealthy London citizens and merchants mainly basket makers .