Hello, A couple of months ago I sited this as a reference for a genealogy listing of Nicholas Snow regarding his possible parents and grandparents. It took awhile to get it reproduced here but here it is, circumstantial at best. I placed the underlining in this reference. Maybe if each of the "descendants" put in $15 each we could send one of us to England to research. There are some for hire in England as well for about $15.00 an hour. Just a thought... Jeanne The American Genealogist (TAG) Vol. 14, No. 4, October, 1938 NICHOLAS SNOW'S MOTHER By Clarence Almon Torrey, Ph.B., of Dorchester, Massachusetts The Waters-Withington-Lea Collection in the Library of the Essex Institute, Salem, Massachusetts, contains manly records relating to the early settlers of New England and their English forebears. Among these records is the following baptism from the parish register of St. Leonard's Shoreditch, London: 1599 Nicholas Snowe ye s of Nicholas Snowe w b. ye xxvth of January Hoxton The late Col. Charles Edward Banks in his "English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers," page 160, presented strong circumstantial evidence for believing that this record referred to the Nicholas Snow who came to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1623, and married Constance Hopkins. If his theory is correct, as the writer believes, the following marriage record doubtless refers to his parents: 1599 May 9 Nicholas Snowe of Bowe & Elizabeth Rowlles of Ratclif This record is found in The Marriage Registers of St. Dunstan's Stepney, in the County of Middlesex, edited by Thomas Colyer-Fergusson, page 42. The date is nearly nine months earlier than the baptism of Nicholas as stated above, which was recorded according to the Old Style calendar and therefore meant January 25, 1599/1600. Other persons by the names of Snow, Rowell, Rowle and Rowles appear in the register of St. Dunstan's, Stepney. The baptism and burials in this parish have not been published. A search of the unpublished records of this and neighboring parishes, and of English wills and other records, will be needed to establish the Snow-Rowlles lineage. Possibly the following marriage record from A Register of Baptisms, Marriages and Burials in the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields in the County of Middlesex, page 59, refers to the grandparents of Nicholas Snow of Plymouth: 1559 May 10 Nicholaus Snow and Katherine Harwoode.