<Note that I have put the OP's note in a new thread as it was getting lost in a thread about will in Africa.> On 13 Mar at 8:06, "Jane Hammond" <[email protected]> wrote: > I am interested in the Battle Abbey Roll listing men who came to > England with William the Conqueror. Is this a physical item that > one can see? Is there anything on it at Hastings? > > My Rotary Club (Putney) is hosting members of our twin Club at > Tourcoing West and we are taking them round Sussex the weekend after > next. Hastings will be on the route. Is there anything that we can > show them? > > I would be grateful for any replies. There is a book that you must read: "My Ancestors came with the Conqueror" by Anthony Camp, pub in 1990 by Soc of Genealogists, though I beleive it is currently out of print. The S of G and some libraries will have copies to read. Anyhow it explains that the Battle Abbey Roll is a modern and unreliable document and that there are no more than 30 people whose names we know and were almost certainly at Hastings. But if you want some appalling scholarship to entertain your members, get hold of the Duchess of Cleveland's 'The Battle Abbey Roll: with some Account of the Norman Lineages' published in 3 vols in 1889. www.archive.org has the first volume at <http://www.archive.org/details/battleabbeyrollw01battuoft>. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe [email protected] for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/