I pretty much outlined in my query what my research had divined. And yes, I have had discussions with the Eystons -- a couple of members of the family. But this was some time ago. One was a bit doddery, in a nice sense. They could not add much to my inquiries. I've also researched in the Catholic diocese that holds the records of the area -- Bournemouth, I think it was. This was, as I said, some years ago. Once the Wuhan Flu hysteria subsides and I am able to wander again, I must get back to EH and environs and pick up where I left off. One story from a Hunt relative who moved to Oxford frm EH: As a young girl, she told me, she refused -- in less-subservient modernish times -- to curtsy to an Eyston grande dame in the village as her ancestors had done and she was expected to do. The frosty Eyston female told her: "Your ancestors have lived in this village as long as mine; you should know this is the tradition!" I know the Eyston family -- by other names -- have been rooted in EH since the Conquest, but I have reason to believe my, and my cousin's, Hunt ancestors perhaps migrated to the village in the 1600s from elsewhere in a time of religious turmoil. That is the what, where, why and how of what I am searching. I have read Tony Hadland's otherwise excellent book on Thjames Valley Papists, but there ain't much in it about East Hendred -- and just a passing reference to the Eystons. Anyone? Anywhere? I offer my first-born child as a perpetual slave for any clues. Thanks.