Hi Pam I thought I'd saved a website that does offer suggestions but at the mo can't track it down. Will keep looking. You obviously know that a lot of websites will offer alternate spellings anyway. What you could do is enter it on the Family Search website as a basic search and just see what alternate spellings they offer, and then go off and do your own research on them. http://genealogy.about.com/od/name_changes/tp/spellings.htm - this is not aimed specifically at you but just a general intro to different variations. I'll keep searching - it must be somewhere! Cheers Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "PMR" <cliveden@iinet.net.au> To: "SSX-PLUS - Mailing List" <SUSSEX-PLUS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 2:36 AM Subject: [SXP] Surname MERYLAD > Greetings Listers > > In the SFHG Database and the SMI, I have found only 6 entries > for the surname MERYLAD. > > In Rye in the late 1540s and early-mid 1550s, 4 children were > baptised, 2 sons and 2 daughters of Robert MERYLAD. The 5th entry is > Robert's burial in 1557. > > The six entry is the marriage of the youngest child, Agnes or > Anys, to John ALMOND in 1575. Agnes and John are ancestors of mine. > > Does anyone know of any other instances of MERYLAD in Sussex? > As > the Rye PRs are availabe from 1538, it would seem that Robert married > elsewhere before moving to Rye. > > Can anyone suggest what variants I should be looking for when > the surname is MERYLAD in Rye? > > Many thanks > > Pam > Beaudesert, Queensland, Australia > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message