Marion, Thank you so much for all this information - I'll be working through it over the next few days & weeks most definitely. Yes, if you could forward the page, re: the Wills, off-List I would appreciate it. I do recall a mention of Cowdray somewhere - must go carefully through my research. Regards & Thanks, Lynne From: Marion Woolgar <listmail008@btinternet.com> To: 'Lynne Howick' <ivysdaughter@yahoo.com.au>; SFHG@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, 27 September 2015, 18:12 Subject: RE: [SFHG] HOWICK / RELPH or RELF In addition to the suggestion from Christine Jackson re Wisborough Green, you might like to take a look at the parish of Fernhurst (sometimes spelt Farnhurst).  The Sussex Marriage Index shows a large cluster of marriages there (plus some associated Licences) and they are regularly spaced from the mid-16th century to the early 19th Century.  The Fernhurst baptisms & burials are on the SFHG Frontis site. There are also eight wills proved in Chichester Archdeaconry up to 1800, including three from Fernhurst and two from Wisborough Green.  I can send you a copy of the page off-List if you would like to have it and the wills have been filmed by the LDS, so you ought to be able to view them at your local Family History Centre.  The Wiki on the FamilySearch web site will provide extra details.  You will find more HOWICK wills that were proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury pre-1858 and these can be found on Ancestry and also on the TNA web site. As you have firm evidence that your family lived in Easebourne at one time, it is possible that they lived on land within one of the  various Cowdray Manors which had extensive holdings in that part of Sussex.  These records can be a little difficult to use, but they are an extra source of information to use in conjunction with parish register entries.  The Cowdray volumes have been deposited at WSRO and most have now been filmed.  Before 1733, the records are written in Latin except for the Commonwealth period of 1649 to 1660.  However, there is often a contemporaneous surname index within each Court Book that will direct you to particular folios and it is comparatively easy to pick out names and places within a particular paragraph.  I have used these records in the past to sort out research problems relating to my husband's family who also lived in this part of Sussex. Best wishes, Marion Woolgar Bognor Regis, West Sussex SFHG Member No: 3323