Hawkesbury Listers will know that cousin Marilyn has a pic on her web site of a CARTER - HULBERT - THOMPSON group in front of a 5 foot high copy of the City of Bristol Coat of Arms. With Marilyns permission I sent it to the Bristol Times ( a supplement to the Bristol Evening Post) who printed it with an appeal. We were then contacted by John CRUMP who though born Bristol now lives in New Zealand who reads the newspaper online. He was interested by the THOMPSON link and the mention of Hawkesbury. John's parents were only children so he grew up without first cousins. He has another brother in NZ. Unfortunately his brother and sister who are still over here were both on holiday at the time of the Get Together. After phoning John it soon transpired that he is a 2nd cousin to Marilyn, Doug and Mrs P. news which he was over the moon with. Auntie Doreen immediately identified their mother, her cousin Grace on a pciture John sent which his son bought him as a birthday present after our first contact. Johns brother Mark and Carol, John;s twin sister visited Me and Mrs P tonite. When this was arranged on Tuesday they said they would brng some "bits and pieces". They did. They brought David THOMPSON's wills (both o them). David the G Grandfather to them all is the Uncle that is mentioned as buying Laburnum Cottage on Inglestone Common in Bills Book. Believe it or not it gets BETTER.....in his second will David says - " I desire to be cremated and my ashes scattered on the Grave of my Mother at Greenbank Cemetry, Bristol". His mother was Mary Jane THOMPSON who in 1881 was living at Back Street with Edward her husband. I have actually lost count how many listers are direct descendants of Edward and Mary Jane THOMPSON but I can recall that Mary Jane was 4th cousin 4 times removed to The Grave Robber. Despite wanting to be cremated there is a undertakers bill for what appears to be a headstone - an inscription of 70 letters. In case the BLAKENEY researchers are wondering David made provision for Annie his 2nd wife in both wills and it would now appear that Annie may not have died until 1954.....or maybe the first few months of 1955. David clearly owns Laburnum Cottage in 1922 but at his death in 41 is living in Bristol and despite numerous properties being listed in the 2nd will Laburnum Cottage is not one of them. I wonder why ???? There are many other delights amongst the papers including clues to trace a THOMPSON that went to Liverpool, the married names of other granddaughters and their children. Geoffro The Pond Dipper Http://www.HawkesburyFamilyHistory.co.uk