This MyRoots weblog has succeeded in attracting another contact, this time for the SPORNE line. The SPORNEs feature quite a long way back in my family tree, but I find I have a fourth cousin twice removed who still bears the surname and is descended from John SPORNE, brother of my ancester Margaret W SPORNE, who married 5x great-grandfather Aaron WALES. Another contact a few months back continues to keep in touch and recently explored the Burnhams in Norfolk where the WALES (and SPORNEs) came from. They found a couple of gravestones bearing the name WALES and one for Thomas STOCKING died in the 1850s. I'm not sure yet where that connection comes in, as my STOCKING line only goes back to London in the early 1800s. They did find a house apparently on the site of the old Foundry in Burnham Westgate, which may have been where our ancestor Aaron WALES worked as a smith and iron founder, but as he doesn't feature in any of the online historical directories for the area, it's difficult to tell whether it's actually the same place as featured in the 1841 and 1851 censuses. Still, it's nice to wonder!