While checking out all the new facts on the COOPER will I realised we needed to find a Thomas THOMPSON, nephew of John COOPER. The only possibility was a son of Ann COOPER. There seemed to be room for a son between her 1771 marriage and our first recorded child Mary in 1775, so I set out to search for him. Shock horror! There he was in my transcriptiion of the parish register - Thomas, son of Thomas and Ann THOMPSON, baptised 5 July 1772. Somehow he had escaped getting on our database of Hawkesbury THOMPSONs! But there it is. No more mystery. And now the will tells us he has a wife Betty and some children. Where are they? Could this be the Thomas THOMPSON who married an Elizabeth in Sherston (Wilts) in 1812. And then they can be the parents (Thomas and Elizabeth) of Martha THOMPSON, baptised 8 June 1823 at Hawkesbury. She was one of the big questions on the list! Is everything falling into place? How many questions can one will solve? Doug Thompson