This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.simpkins/217.1.4/mb.ashx Message Board Post: I have Kate Simpkins on my tree... she is my 5th cousin twice removed. If you go back on her maternal side she is a descendant of a William Chivers who himself was the son of a Britten