I've just joined the list with I guess a very limited chance of finding much, because of the age of the material I am interested in My father's family came from a Gloucestershire village called Longborough. a letter turned up a few years ago when some New Zealand cousins where around saying that the family came there from Ireland about 1700, & were highly secretive about their origins. of course these sort of things make you interested ! I guess they were protestants by the name & where earlier settlers themselves,with probably not a very positive start. Any way the only place I can find any real evidence of a family of that name is Wexford. I have done some limited research/reading, about those troubled times, but wonder if any one has any other info viv