Brian: When do you sleep? You don't leave much to choose between 'instant replay' and 'instant reply'. Thank you so much for your complete (inadequate word) explanation of chapelries and for the rest of your answer. That must be why the earlier entries are signed by the same man as 'sub-vicar', and later as 'Incumbent'. The St Michael's you mention must be the parish of which my ggfather, John Bruce, became Relieving Officer, per the 1881 census. Another clue. Little by little. Don't know how you do it. Thanks again, Bruce Dodd