You know, when I started researching my family a few years ago I had been happy to call myself a descendant of Irish peasants. That was because my exactly one Irish branch was all I knew about at the time. I have been "stricken" since then with huge amounts of information that proves that first, my family is almost invariably Puritan/Yankee stock, and second, they all arrived in America before 1700. My point on the latter is that much of the information I have now is wonderfully common or encyclopedic knowledge, which pleases me to no end. At this time, I am trying to keep up with verification on lesser known lines, but I have not finished--this work is never done, however, in the case of my Perkins in Connecticut, Edward Perkins is recorded as arriving in America at Ipswich in 1637 aboard the HECTOR. As for information before that, at this time, I rely upon a pamphlet written in the 1970s researched by Delia Ann Perkins and compiled by Winifred Richardson Wittkow that I received from a Perkins cousin, and which primarily concentrates on the Quebec and New York descendants of this family. So, on to France and England according to the RICHARDSON-PERKINS MEMORIAL: Ancestral Lines and Descendants of Jacob Delos Richardson and His Wife Delia Ann Perkins. 1. PIERRE DE MORLAIX (presumed born at Morlaix, France, c. 1360, High Steward to Hugh Despenser, emigrated to England 1380-81 during the reign of King Richard II (1377-1399) m. England AGNES TAYLOR 2. HENRY PIERREKINS (b. England, known as Henry, son of Pierre, which became "Pierrekins" or little one of Pierre) 3. JOHN PERKINS (b. 1397, England, High Steward to Thomas de Despenser, Earl of Gloucester, during reign of King Henry VI, first to use Perkins surname) 4. WILLIAM PERKINS, Lord of Ufton (b. England, bailiff to Humphrey Plantagenet, Duke of --, living 1411-1447) m. MARGARET -- 5. THOMAS PERKINS (b. England, living 1452-1479) 6. JOHN PERKINS (b. England) m. MARGARET COLLEE (Colley, Cooley) 7. THOMAS PERKINS (b. 1495, England) m. 1524 DOROTHY MORE (dau of EDWARD MORE of Wichwood, England) 8. WILLIAM PERKINS (b. Ufton Court, Wilshire, England, second son) m. ANNA WELLS (sister of RICHARD WELLS) 9. FRANCES PERKINS (d. 1615) m. ANNA DAN of Plowden, England Inherited Ufton Court in 1581 from his uncle Richard Wells who died in 1560. Richard Wells was the first to use the coat-of-arms which was granted 18 Aug 1559, and later used by Lady Marvin, presumed to be the wife of Richard Wells and the sister of William Perkins. Through Lady Marvin, Frances Perkins also became the owner of Pole Manor in Ufton and other estates in Wilshire during the reign of Elizabeth I. 10. FRANCES PERKINS II (d. 1660) 11. EDMOND PERKINS (b.c. 1600) m. 1624 ALICE PERKINS Edmond Perkins lived at his grandfather Frances Perkins' home, Ufton Court. He was sent on business to visit some distant relatives at Newent, and fell in love and married Alice Perkins in 1624. She was beautiful, but poor and a Protestant. Since Edmond's family were Catholic, they were unhappy about the marriage, and Edmond was disinherited, but apparently he was permitted to live at Ufton Court. He died a few years later leaving his wife Alice in poor estate with their three small children: a. ALICE PERKINS (b.c. 1625) b. RALPH PERKINS (b.c. 1626) c. EDWARD PERKINS (b.c. 1627, Ufton Court, Wilshire, England, d.> 1688, New England, emigrated to America in 1637 aboard the HECTOR) m. 20 Mar 1649, New Haven, Connecticut ELIZABETH BUTCHER. About 1783, descendants of this family emigrated to what was later known as Vale Perkins on Lake Memphramagog in Quebec where they established their residence called "Ufton Court" after the ancient ancestral home in England. This house was still standing in the 1970s and Perkins descendants still owned it and lived there. Hope this answers some of the queries I have received, but I'll check if some required other later details. Allison Vachon at ciceron@aol.com