Hello Ted, I have a feeling that SUFFOLK INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY http://www.suffolkarch.org.uk/ has the Pinchbeck Register in its library, which you will find at the Bury St Edmunds branch of the Suffolk Record Office. You could send an enquiry directly to Katie at the Bury on katie.vaughan@libher.suffolkcc.gov.uk It is unlikely that such an ancient volume will be available on the internet. Such precious items have to be ordered up from the store room and white gloves worn to protect the pages whilst the book sits on a book-rest (SLHC will be donating more in memory of the late Suffolk historian Peter Northeast). Impatient eh? I have been researching for thirty nine years since becoming engaged to my Framlingham born husband, you do learn to be patient, eventually :-) Pat ... in a very sunny south Suffolk From: "Ted & Magi" tedandmagi@bordernet.com.au > Firstly a very big thank you for the help received so far. I know > considerably more about Saxtead and records available now. I haven't yet > been able to look at the parish records and it takes a couple of weeks to > order up microfilm etc through the LDS out here. (140 km round trip just > to place the order) > Secondly however I'm too impatient to just wait for those. A Google > search tells me that William Punyer 1327 appears in the Pinchbeck > Register. This old volume is among other things a record of the assets of > the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. This doesn't appear to be any > easier to get hold of than LDS microfilm in this neck of the woods so > does some SKS have any information on this record. > The name Punyer hasn't appeared in any other searches of Suffolk Parishes > etc but the name Punchard does and from my experience in Kent, Punchard > would seem to be the sort of name Punyer might "evolve" into. Does anyone > have any links with PUNCHARD particularly in the Saxtead area 16th/17th > century. > TIA > Ted Fowler > Drake in Northern New South Wales