Hi folks, In Lincolnshire, there is a small hamlet called Tetley, which is near a place called Crowle. It's too small to be on anything but the most detailed of maps, but there it is, still, and has been for centuries. So far, I have no record of any Tetleys living there, except for a single reference to a John de Tetteley who was living in the 'Isle of Axholme' in 1320 (mentioned by George Redmonds in his book Yorkshire surnames (ref: YF)). (The 'Isle of Axholme' is another name for the general area, in which, Crowle, and the hamlet called Tetley, are situated.) at this URL, are some of the lay Subsidies for the area for around 13201-1330, and there are some folk called 'de Teclay' mentioned. http://www.le.ac.uk/elh/pot/lindsey/crowle.html. If we note some of the other odd spellings of names shown there, e.g. Waryn for (possibly) Warren, then maybe its possible that 'de Teclay' is a form of writing down 'de Tettley'. I've certainly heard my name 'Tetley' spoken as 'Teckley', in Sheffield, when I was younger. So, listed there, are:- Robert de Teclay who contributed 2 shillings and 8 pence John de Teclay who contributed 2 shillings John de Teclay who contributed 1 shilling Maybe these are some of the early Tetleys! If so, it blows my theory that the Tetleys are just Tetlows who migrated across the pennines! I note in another part of this website, the mention of a book that might have some bearing on this. It says:- "An extremely interesting study of the lay subsidy material for the Parts of Lindsey is: G. Kristensson, Studies on the Early Fourteenth Century Population of Lindsey (Royal Society of Letters, Scripta Minora, Lund, 1976-7), which considers the direction of movement of people and regional association." Cheers Rich -- Born in Sheffield, but currently in Nottingham UK. Family names:- ASHFORTH, CAVE, CHAMPION, HODGES, HOPE, JACKSON, NICHOLSON, SIMPSON, SLEE, TETLEY, WALKER, WESTOVER, WOOLLEN, WILLIAMS. Home Website: http://freespace.virgin.net/richard.tetley/