Hi Wendy ... Thanks very much (again!) for your kind offer of help. Any further information from the original of the marriage bond would be most useful. Another lister has also supplied me with the following admon from the Oxfordshire indexes: Westall, Wastie, Thomas of South Leigh dated 1597 which would seem to indicate that WESTALL could be a variant of WASTIE (yet another one!). Any further information on this one would also be of interest. Many thanks. Penny