Hi Geoff and all, The nativity of Benjamin TURNEY, father of the TURNEY girls who married the SHERWOOD boys, is proven to be Hollingdon, Parish of Soulbury, Buckinghamshire. In addition, a compelling case has been made that his father was Thomas TURNEY, whose direct line is proven back to James TURNEY who died in 1519/20 at Slapton, Buckinghamshire (the parish church has a memorial brass of this "Yeoman of the Crown to King Henry VIII"). The October 1936 editon of "The American Genealogist" has a twenty page article with all the details (put together by Donald Lines Jacobus). I should have been more clear that I was referring to the immigrant TURNEY's ancestor's home, not their own. Nevertheless, Slapton and Soulbury are only a few miles from each other and if Thomas SHERWOOD was indeed from Slapton he no doubt would have known of the TURNEY family, many of whom resided in Slapton at least as late as the early 1900's (the SEABROOK's Wingrave is also only a few miles away). For the sake of clarity, I'll call the Thomas above 'Stratford Thomas' so as to distinguish him from the other Thomas whom I'll refer to as 'Fairfield Thomas' (or we could call them Thomas'55 and Thomas'57--or was it '58?). Does anyone know of any connection between these two while they resided in Connecticut that might suggest a familial relationship? Otherwise I'm still inclined toward the East Anglia hypothesis for the origin of Fairfield Thomas. I've been pretty much completely persuaded that Fairfield Thomas was not a son-in-law of Robert SEABROOK--a connection based on a mixing of the two Thomas SHERWOOD's (combined with the unfortunate coincidence that Robert SEABROOK had a daughter whose given name was the same as Fairfield Thomas' wife). As regards my present whereabouts--I'm many miles distant from England but only a few minutes away from the Dallas Public Library where I came across the probate and Ipswich town records (I take my tea on the rocks). I've got some more probate records which I'll post in a few days. Dean