« Reply #29 on: Thursday 28 March 13 01:23 GMT (UK) »
I know it is a long shot, but you probably need to check for wills for any Pierce's in Monmouthshire in the 1700's. I don't imagine there would be too many. However, it gets more complicated if the name reverts to patronymics.
I am Australian, from all the lands I come (my ancestors, at least!)
Pine/Pyne, Dowdeswell, Kempster, Sando/Sandoe/Sandow, Nancarrow, Hounslow, Youatt, Richardson, Jarmyn, Oxlade, Coad, Kelsey, Crampton, Lindner, Pittaway, and too many others to name.
Devon, Dorset, Gloucs, Cornwall, Warwickshire, Bucks, Oxfordshire, Wilts, Germany, Sweden, and of course London, to name a few.