It is, as you all must have found, much easier to search for ancestors with rare names. One name I came across recently, and had not heard of before, is Costerdine. A Mary Costerdine was married in 1602, in the City of London, to Thomas Goodfellow. There is a Matthew Costerdine, who was apprenticed to the Guild of Stationers in 1590, and I discovered, however, that there are quite a few people by that name in Manchester, and Cheshire, at least in past centuries. Andrew Wilson