Hello... I have two William HOOPERs who may be the same man. I'd like to know whether anyone else is researching him/them and can help me to solve the puzzle. Wm A was the son of Ann George and Wm Hooper, born c. 1839 in Perranzabuloe, Cornwall. He's not on the census after 1851: he might have died, but he could be one of the Wm Hoopers who came to Victoria in the goldrush. An unassisted, solitary, arrival in 1855 could be him on the basis of age; others are excluded because they came as family groups. No definite death for this man in Victoria. Wm B had children with Mary Jane PRYOR in the Castlemaine area from 1860-81; unless there's a transcription error, they were married in 1869. The most likely death is 1897, Fryers Creek, aged 65, parents unknown. There's no naming pattern to suggest that his parents were called Ann and Wm, but as there's none for her parents either they presumably weren't inclined to that way of naming children... so it proves nothing. Wm B and Mary Jane had a daughter who married the son of Thomas Barnes, inventor and manufacturer of Castelmaine Rock. Here's hoping.... Phoebe