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Hi, I know there is someone on this list who has been researching the Jacques / Jaquays family. I would be interested to learn what information you have on the earliest known members of the family. The latest issue of the NEHGS Register has an excellent article by Dr. Ed Harrison about the ancestry of Stephen Gates of Cambridge. Almost every early Gates family I have run into seems to trace back to Stephen. There has been much controversy about his ancestry. It was known that he was of Hingham, Norfolk, England. Dr. Harrison discovered his baptism in the village of Coney Weston in Suffolk about 16 miles from Hingham. Based on this he has identified his parents: Eustace Gates and Rosa Wright. What is curious is that Eustace's will gives his name as Jaques, yet the Coney Weston registers use Gate(s) for all of the family entries except for his burial. The burial entry uses the odd spelling of Jayuettes. This immediately triggered the question: Why would a simple name like Gates be spelled so differently? In a private correspondence with Dr. Harrison, he mentioned that he had done some looking for other instances of the Jaques name in the area. I might wonder if Eustace was actually born a Jaques and adopted the name Gates. If the RI Jacques family has English origins as I recall, I suspect a little DNA test comparison is in order... john.