Magdalena's lengthy and fascinating post about the Battle of Marston Moor and the Civil war in response to mine mentions the Boyntons and particularly Sir Matthew Boynton, a prominent parliamentarian who beseiged Scarborough Castle. I have often wondered - and will almost certainly never have the time to look into it - whether Yorkshire's most celebrated man of letters, J. B. Priestley, had connections with the family because, of course, his middle name was BOYNTON. At some stage in the 1880s/1890s my family were near neighbours in Bradford of the Priestley family. Priestley's father was a headmaster. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE