Adrian I have not been following this thread in detail so apologies if I repeat what has already been suggested. Spelling in the seventeenth century was notoriously idiosyncratic: have you been able to locate any original documents (wills?) bearing the names and hopefully signatures. I have seen wills of this period and earlier where the same person's name was written differently, even by the same scribe. And I have examples of signatures where the spelling has been inconsistent. My great (5) grandfather used one variant when at home in Yorkshire and another when he was in London. Coming right up to date (well, comparitively) I knew a traveller in the 1970s who had called himself by one name (forename and surname) at one location and a completely different name only five miles away. This was not done to hide his identity, he never moved far from the area in Kent, but his identity changed with his locus. I don't fancy trying to research him in the future..... Best regards Blair > On 16 Sep 2014, at 08:01, sog-uk-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > Re: Pickstock and Pickstone name variants? (Adrian Bruce)