Hello everyone! I've just joined the list and am posting my surname interests as follows: CANNON and/or CANNONS (an illiterate bunch!). BEST TURNER GOLLOP MILLARD SHOESMITH All from Dorset and Hampshire (and some from Bournemouth, which can't make up its mind!) All the best, Davy Cannon Weymouth, Dorset.

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 02:24:36 -0000, you wrote: >(and some from Bournemouth, which can't make up its mind!) Well they certainly couldn't wait to get out of Dorset :-) But to be serious, I think as far as genealogy is concerned we normally assume Hampshire. Paul Portland