At Geoffro's request I am reposting my Hawkesbury connections. Happy 90th anniversary, so to speak! 42 subscribers, as per Douglas Adams wasn't 42 the ultimate answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything? Let's hope. My g-g-grandparents George WOOLNOUGH and Mary Ann HAREWELL are supposed to have eloped together from her father's inn, the Trouble House just outside Tetbury. They were married in Bristol in 1835, then show up in Hawkesbury in 1837 where their first son William was christened. George's brother Robert married Mary Ann's cousin Eliza SPIRE in 1836, and also lived in Hawkesbury where their firstborn was christened the same day as William. Both brothers are shown as innkeepers on the baptism records. I suspect they were at the "New Inn". George and Mary Ann moved on to Crudwell, then Knockdown, then Oldbury-on-the-Hill. Robert and Eliza stayed until she died age 31... Robert emigrated to Australia with two of his daughters in 1852, thence to New Zealand. My main interest is in compiling a history of the families associated with the Trouble House, a project which is well along and may get into print in the next year. The work to date is posted at http://www.labscan.com/trouble/ I am also interested in the history of any of the Hawkesbury pubs. I myself am 6th generation Aussie, descended from Richard a son of George and Mary Ann, as well as sundry Scottish free-settlers, English convicts and Irish revolutionaries. Others of their kids moved to Germany in the 1870s and co-founded a major engineering firm, Dehne of Halberstadt. Hundreds of descendants now live on 4 continents. Cheers from New York... Ken Murray