Hi Hawkesbury Group I have been actively researching my ILES ancestry in and around the Bitton parish area which I have traced back to Aaron ILES and Francis ILES who had a double wedding on 22/4/1703. I have assumed these to be brothers. I have my suspicions that some of these ILES folk may have moved into the area post civil war, to get involved in the coal mining. An old member of the Bristol & Avon FHS told me that some old fella (since deceased) had traced his ILES line back to 1066 which ended up in the Hawkesbury area. I know from Domesday studies that Gloucester was most heavily populated in that area of Gloucestershire at the time of 1066 and so statistically many families will have their roots in that area. Some of the Hawkesbury IGI entries provide suspicious "name pattern" links and I know from my own experience that the IGI entries can be patchy compared with primary parish records. I have collected a lot of 17th ILES data but not yet linked up with 1703. There was a Moses ILES who died 1729 who mentioned Aaron and his sons in his will. There is also a Joseph ILES in the will. Throughout the 17th Century there are numerous references to the surname ILES alias MONK. I have record of a Nicholas ILES who appears on the scene around 1700 and a "cousin Moses ILES" mentioned as a beneficiary in a will of 1676 who appears nowhere in the parish records in my area. My question is, has anybody studying the same name in Hawkesbury come across any links with families outside - particularly the area east of Bristol or encountered a sudden disappearance of a line. Derek Iles