I have now completed the Settler Returns up to the end of the letter R (there is nothing for Russell's Party in the file) and hope to complete them before I go to Portugal at the end of next week. I was exceedingly grateful for the short respite while the eggsa site was down yesterday, as it gave me time to recover from transcribing the return for PARKER's Party. The man drove me mad with his correspondence and he did so again with his non standard returns! http://www.eggsa.org/1820-settlers/index.php/settler-returns I have added a couple of extra information files. PARKER did at least give me the clue for James ALLISON, by stating that he was a pensioner of the 23rd Light Dragoons, and once I had found his discharge papers it was easy enough to track down his baptism and marriage in Scotland. Although his wife is listed as Ann, she was actually Agnes MAXWELL. The Settler Handbook lists Sarah (15) and Anne (1), whereas PARKER's Return at Kew lists them the other way around. As James ALLISON wrote a letter from Bury St.Edmunds in 1819 and there is a Suffolk baptism for Sarah ALLISON in 1819, it seems clear that Sarah was in fact the youngest child. http://www.eggsa.org/1820-settlers/index.php/additional-information/a-surnames/1955-allison-james-extra-data The other file I have added is for Thomas ROWLES, leader of ROWLES' Party. Recent access to original Gloucestershire parish records revealed the family in Stroud. http://www.eggsa.org/1820-settlers/index.php/additional-information/r-surnames/1958-rowles-thomas-extra-data Sue