Walt, I agree with you that the name is Vasthi. In the first instance it appears to be written Vasthae and in the second Vasthie. Somewhere on the Family Search website there is a very good tutorial for OE handwriting, although you don't seem to be having too much trouble with it. There's also an excellent one on the National Archive website. Best wishes Sue On 11/04/2012 18:47, Walt O'Dowd wrote: > I have been taking advantage of the New Family Search website to look up > some parish records concerning ancestors in the Great Migration of the > early seventeenth century, and have come across one forename that has me > stumped. There are two records for the person concerned (a daughter of > Christopher Marche and Francys his wife of Runham in Norfolk); a baptism > and a burial. My best stab at the name is Vasthie (Book of Esther?). > The name does not occur elsewhere in the family as far as I can see and > she is the fifth child of eight, the rest of which are pretty standard: > Thomas, Elizabeth, Anne, William, Mary, Sara, and Christopher. > > The first occurance is in a 1582 baptism record: > https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11577-18420-89?cc=1416598&wc=MMVP-4SN:293861336 > > The second occurance is in a 1592 burial record: > https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11577-19344-70?cc=1416598&wc=MMVP-4SN:293861336 > > Any thoughts are welcomed. > > Walt O'Dowd > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message