Roy Johnson wrote: > It just occurred to me as I read you email that I have > “bragging rights” to having started the ball rolling toward the solution > to the John of Middlesex problem, since it was on the Pace Network that > you made the contact that ultimately led to that connection. > > That’s exciting! > Roy Yes, It certainly all started from that article of Janet Anderson of England, who posted in 1996 on your PACE NETWORK, a daughter of John Edward Pace of Cannock, Staffordshire, son of Edward Pace, brother of Charles VICARAGE Pace (my grandfather) who was also a brother of WILLIAM PACE who still has descendents at LANEY GREEN of Shareshill parish today. Since then, I have travelled and visited these people in England. Some have passed on since then but your entheusiasm has been very productive in bringing so much about for so many people to share in. These descendents of WILLIAM PACE live on or very near the original site where GEORGE PACE Christened 1670 PREES Shropshire, obviously (brother of JOHN PACE of Middlesex Co Virginia), settled in the 1720's. I have got back to the grandfather ROWLAND PACE and it's likely this ROWLAND or Richard originated from Westbury on Severn, Gloucestershire. There are some likely spelling errors in these early parish registers but the relatively few PACE entrys in the parish registers of Shropshire of the 1600's clearly reveal where and when any PACE Christenings occured. Perhaps we can thank Henry VIII for his work in trying to keep records and tax money in England. Henry, his father and grandfather tried to establish institutes of higher learning in England. A fact he is not given much credit for. Not much later in English history is PACE descendent Katherine ROGERS, mother of John HARVARD, benefactor of the oldest institution of higher learning in the United Stated, spent her childhood years in Stratford-upon-Avon. Katherine ROGERS b 25 Nov 1584 d/o Margareta PACE + Thomas ROGERS Marriage 31 Jan 1562 Holy Trinity, Stratford http://www.phc.igs.net\~gordpace\uk\stratford.htm This is just amazing. You certainly have the rights to sing about. You have given and received so much of PACE Family history, both in the US and now in England. Family History certainly cannot get any better than this !! Gord Pace - Ontario Canada http://www.phc.igs.net/~gordpace/