on 10/08/2000 10:32 pm, Wessex Estates & Securities at wessex@iinet.net.au wrote: > Could not Joseph COOPER ( the father of James COOPER who married Ann LEWIS in > 1840 in Hawks. ) just as easily be any one of the following culled from the > IGI ? : The only James COOPER registered in Hawkesbury between 1810 and 1830 is the one who is a son of Joseph and Mary COOPER. Joseph and Mary have a whole list of children registered in the period 1805-29 which match exactly the ones given in your John COOPER will. So it looks like James must be the son of Joseph who is brother of John and hence son of Thomas and Martha. However we can't be certain that the James who married Ann LEWIS is this one unless the marriage certificate gives some clues. He might be the other James who is the son of Thomas and Ann COOPER born ca 1803. Or he might even be from a distant parish. Geoffro might look up the marriage on his microfiche to see if there's a clue. I don't think any of us have worked on the very early COOPERS you ask about yet. Doug Thompson