This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Phillips Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/nNABAIB/5502.1 Message Board Post: Not sure if this is of any help - I haven't done any proper research. My mother was born Eileen Mary Phillips at Goldborough Farm (west of Pembroke Dock) on 10 March 1929. I have found www.streetmap.co.uk to provide excellent maps, showing al the farms in some detail. Her father was Thomas Bentley Phillips. The farm belonged to her family on my grandmother's side (Marjorie Roberts), and, at that time, my great grandfather (Jabez Roberts) ran the farm, with Thomas' help. My great aunt (Elizabeth Jane Roberts) also lived there. I know that my grandfather came from the Haverfordwest area - his sister (Gwennie) married a man called Jones and lived at St Kennox farm, just outside Haverfordwest at Llawhaden. Her children included a son (Kenneth), who inherited the farm, and two daughters (Margaret and Mary), who married farmers. I also know that many of the Phillipses and Robertses emigrated to Australia at the turn of the last century. I know very little about the Phillipses - many of the family are no longer with us. My mother had two brothers (Thomas and George) and a sister (Gwen), all still living. I know that my grandparents moved to Bristol in the late 30s, to look after my great-great-grandmother (on my grandmother's side) who was ill, and who had moved there in 1905 to live with her daughter by her second marriage. Shortly after, my great-grandfather (Jabez) died, and Goldborough was sold - the family could not move back once war was declared, and my grandmother was pregnant - moving was difficult then - I know they used a pony and trap, and there was no way across the Severn, so the journey meant going north through Gloucestershire, and then south into Wales (as it did when I was a child). My mother's sister and one brother still live in Bristol, as do their children (my cousins). George is in Canada, and his children are in ther USA and Canada. My parents died some years ago, and my sister is in Plymouth, and I live in Yorkshire. Not sure if this is of any help, as I said. But the name Thomas Bentley Phillips may provide a connection - if so, I cna let you have more info (dates of birth, etc).