Hello Sue, Thank you very much for taking the trouble to look for Thomas SKELTON/SKELDON et al. The "c. 1790" for his baptism is a bit of a shot in the dark as I have no firm evidence for the date (in fact, I have no firm evidence for his existence, barring the fact that he fathered a son, Thomas junior!). The variants are many - you could virtually do "S*L*N" and come up with most of them! Thanks once again for your help, Best regards Will