Can I suggest that you look at http://www.cursiter.com - Walt Custer's home page - he has amassed a wealth of information on Cursiters and variant spellings. This also applies to anybody researching any "Orcadian" surname - Walt has put a lot of information on his site, freely available to all. Kind regards. Mike -- Mike Clouston mailto:mike@clouston.co.uk http://www.clouston.co.uk/ http://web.ukonline.co.uk/pegwell/