Many years ago I visited the Archives in Beverley. One of my areas of interest is Thomas LAMPLUGH who was born in Thwing, Yorkshire in 1615 and became Archbishop of York in 1688. I was looking at the early Thwing registers and tucked away inside was an original letter written in 1883 by a descendent of Thomas. The letter was full of little anecdotes as well as confirming my research: "I always thought it spoke well for the Archbishop that in the time when the Prayer Book Services were forbidden by the Commonwealth he used to continue to use the Burial Service saying it by heart howas not to come within the Act " . "He had 11 sisters one of whom married Mr Raper of York. She was my great Grandmother, and it was through her that my brother Walter Lamplugh Brooksbank inherited the Cumberland property of the Lamplugh's. Her son John Lamplugh Raper the impression of who's seal you have, died without children in 1868, killed by a horse in Berkeley Square." Whilst at the Archives there lots of other goodies which may help your research which you would never come across online. Lin On 01/12/2014 09:29, CHRISTINE WILLOTT via wrote: > Hi > I need to encourage as many of you as possible to come to the Yorksgen holiday in August for some if not all the time so I thought I would start a thread (I hope) on gems to be found in archives. >