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