on 2/07/2000 10:39 am, Geoff Brightman at geoff_brightman6@thefreeinternet.co.uk wrote: > One of the graves at St Mary's Hawkesbury is that of Hannah Maria THOMPSON > died 9th June 1914 aged 68 beloved wife of Charles THOMPSON. > > This Charles and Hannah Maria THOMPSON are likely to be the couple listed on > the 1881 census as living at Mayshill, Westerleigh. According to the census > Charles is born Thornbury and Hannah Maria in Yate. > > The question for me and other Hawkesbury THOMPSON researchers is why is > Hannah Maria buried at Hawkesbury alongside the Hawkesbury THOMPSONs ? Who > were the parents of Hannah Maria and Charles. > > Do Charles or Hannah Maria belong to anybody on the list ? There is a THOMPSON family living in Hillsley in 1841 (census) with Charles as a family name. Father is Charles and a son also. The son's age is given as 15 so he was born ca 1825. He could be your Charles if he married a woman about 15 years his junior. Doug Thompson