« Reply #48 on: Saturday 12 May 18 00:39 BST (UK) »
My line with the Ferdinando's was definitely not Catholic. After checking my files, there were actually three of the name. The first seemed to have done for himself, working as a secretary at the Exchequer. Perhaps the other two were named in his honour.
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.