<<In a transcript of the 1633 Visitation of London there is a reference to 'Joyce, daughter of Nason of Rougham', who married Walter Aston in 1619?  In Aston genealogies there are references to 'Nason of Roughton'. I can find Rougham/Roughton in Norfolk, which has never been Nason territory.  The Astons were Midlands gentry and lived in Staffs; Nason was, particularly circa 1600, a Warwickshire name. Will anyone hazard a guess at a possible Warwickshire location for Rougham or its sound-a-like?   A Joyce Nason was baptised in 1560 in Wellesbourne but would have been rather long in the tooth at marriage? - it is reported that Joyce was Walter's 2nd wife, so a possibility.>> Hello Mike,   I've looked in Place-Names of Warwickshire, which lists many names of places smaller than parishes and gives their past forms, but haven't been able to find any place which has ever taken a form close to Rougham or Roughton except one - Wrautam, a place on the boundary between Walsgrave-on-Sowe parish and Combe Abbey extra-parochial district.  Wrautam appears on early large-scale OS maps, and is mentioned in the VCH chapter on Walsgrave, but in both cases only as a field name - whether anyone was living there in the 17th century I do not know.  The latest references to it mentioned in Place-names of Warwickshire are 1356 and 1411. I see the Aston entry in the Visitation of London says 'Rougham, co. Warwick', so I suppose there is not much use in looking at places outside the county, but I did also check the Place-Name volumes for Worcs, Gloucs, Oxon and Northants, but with no success.  A look in Ekwall's English Place-names did throw up not just the Roughams and Roughtons in Norfolk and Suffolk (and Roughton in Lincs), plus the Wroughton in Wilts, but also a Roughton in the parish of Worfield in southeast Salops (between Bridgnorth and Wolverhampton), and two Rowtons in the same county (one near High Ercall, the other west of Shrewsbury). If the Visitation statement that Rougham was in Warwicks is disregarded, Worfield and High Ercall are closer than any of the other possibilities to the Astons' seat at Tixall in Staffs. Regards, Matt Tompkins ________________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE AOL Email account with 2GB of storage. Plus, share and store photos and experience exclusively recorded live music Sessions from your favourite artists. Find out more at http://info.aol.co.uk/joinnow/?ncid=548.