To answer the often asked question of why I got into the One Name Study.
My mother was a KITTO from South Australia. Her family origins were in Breage, in the South of Cornwall. They migrated around 1850 to Adelaide. I went seeking my KITTO family roots in South Australia.
Firstly, I sorted out South Australia to determine that there were three main KITTO families with several hundred in each branch. From this I went to Cornwall records to find the origins of these three families, two of them being in Breage, and one from Redruth. In trying to sort out the numerous KITTOs in this Cornish Town of Breage, I spent several hundred hours putting the massive family tree together, helped by the input from many others. It did not help when of the 200+ early males there were only five Christian names -  James, John, Thomas, Richard and William -€“ and they married only Elizabeth, Jane, Mary or Margaret. Other names were rare, but these often helped to pinpoint family groups. By the time I had €solved the Breage tree problem€ I had collected bits and pieces from many other parishes in Cornwall.
Having collected all KITTO registrations from the Government Record Office Indexes for 1837 to 1851, and since Breage had over 31% of all KITTOs in Cornwall, I figured I had sorted out the main line, so went looking for the sidelines. Little did I realise then that the Breage inhabitants were just a migratory branch from elsewhere. I still have yet to find the '€œseed'€, but it seems to be from somewhere in the Central North of Cornwall, perhaps around Bodmin or perhaps around Launceston. I expanded my research from here.