Christine Read wrote: > I am hoping this will be of interest/helpful to some of you to > maybe take your research back a little further! What a wonderful will :-) I have a Joan ASHENDEN, but by 1493 she had been Joan YATE for nearly 30 years, so I guess that isn't her. Anyway, mine was some miles from Reading. Though since he had relatives in Knutsford, distance might not matter so much :-) > He mentions also Thomas GRENEWEY my suant (I wonder if this is > servant)? They didn't really distinguish between "u" and "v", so I'd think it probably is. If you could see the original, it might have one of those squiggles over the "s" which indicate missing letters. DaveB