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 Hi, thanks for all this information! @jaerae439 we must be related. John & Ellen Thomas are my 3xgreat grandparents. We had never found anything past my 2xgreat grandma Margaret Thomas but had heard stories of the grandparents parishing in a shipwreck and we also heard they had lived in a castle. We knew they had come from Wales and a few other small details. Did you ever find the links to the castle? I tried searching the Mercil/Maynard Pritchard name because it was so unusual but could find nothing. Again, thanks for the information!!