Hi, I have been researching the Peskett surname for many years, but still struggle to make the connection from the present Peskett name to the earlier Pescod variations.  The period where the surname seems to have changed was in the mid to late 1700's, but unfortunately, this is also the time period when parish registers tend to be rather vague.  I have many thousands of individuals in my database from the 1800's onwards, but lack the ability to connect them earlier.  If they weren't on the early censuses that's where I'm running into problems.  The Pescod surname along with it's variations (Pescud, Pescott, Peskett and others) seems to stem from the Sussex, Hampshire and Surrey areas, although the Pescod name also has lines in the north. The problem is, there are so many Pescod families in the Sussex area, and unless there is a very uncommon forename, then it's very difficult to identify the correct family.  There are so many Pescod families in such close proximity to each other it hard to tie down the right one.  I look at the Sussex map and there are Pescod families from probably 75% of the parishes.  There are some parishes that I've been able to make the conversion over from Pescod to Peskett, Billingshurst and Pulborough are a couple of them.  But alas there are hundreds more unconnected.  How do you definitively make the connection?  My own Peskett line I've traced back to Midhurst in the mid 1700's to a Richard Pescod,  unfortunately from there I run into trouble.  There are several Richard Pescod's all from roughly the same area born around the same time.  Which one's which?  I've been told my Richard Pescod was from Lodsworth, but it seems that if I look at online trees it seems that a lot of people have taken that Richard Pescod as theirs.  Whose right? I would appreciate any advice or would love to correspond with anyone that's make the connection from Pescod to Peskett or has Pesketts in their tree.  I'm restricted to online information as the distance across the pond to England makes a quick visit to the records office, impossible. Thanks in advance. Gerald Peskett Ontario, Canada