Hi Folks It is a very small world, and I believe that we are closer than we realise. William BAKER and Charles CROSS arrived on the Neptune in 1790 - and their descendants have married many times over in the 226 years since their arrival. Yes, many siblings of one line have married siblings in the other line. I was born and raised in a small central Queensland country town of Springsure. My father was born there, but he married a lass from Mackay. His younger sister was also born in Springsure, but she married a lad from Clermont. So far from the Hawkesbury where the CROSS and BAKER families originated, yet the lass from Mackay was a descendant of Charles CROSS and the lad from Clermont was a descendant of William BAKER. It was only this June, that my cousin told me his ancestor had also arrived on the NEPTUNE and we made the connection. I havea lot of information on the BAKER family and have been working with a group researching the BAKER family and I was able to add a whole branch to their tree for them. The lad from Clermont was a grandson of John Thomas BAKER and Amelia Ellen MARSH who had married in Inverell in 1889, and moved to Capella, where they had three children. The youngest and only daughter was Amelia Gertrude Marsh BAKER who married James Douglas MUIRHEAD. However, Gertrude died young, leaving four young sons who were raised by Grandmother BAKER in Clermont. It is interesting that no matter how far we travel, we always met someone with a connection. Lorrae Glenore Grove Qld 4342 http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=helmrich