This is for any Listers researching the MILES & MAY names at Ashford Hill, and possibly for John LEWIS. I should be interested to know whether anyone might be able to confirm, or disprove, the hypothesis below. I have been trying for some time to discover the identity of the Hannah who married Stephen MILES, son of Benjamin MILES & Mary BIRD and brother of my 2x great-grandmother Elizabeth. They were married at unknown date and place, probably just before 1830, and presumably at Kingsclere. The only direct evidence comes from the baptisms of four children where Stephen MILES & Hannah are shown as the parents: these are Ann (baptised 1830), Daniel (1832), Hannah (1836) & Benjamin (1838); all the baptisms were at St Mary, Kingsclere. Census evidence in 1841 indicates that the family lived at Ashford Hill (as did the other MILES family members) but Stephen evidently died before then as Hannah is shown in the 1841 census as a widow. I believe the key to Hannah’s identity lies in the 1851 census, which records an Ann MILES (20) and a Hannah MILES (15), both born at Kingsclere, living at Ashford Hill with their grandfather Charles MAY, a widowed carpenter aged 74 born at Brimpton. From the birthdate and description, this must be the Charles MAY born circa 1776 who married Ann MARINER. Charles & Ann had a daughter Hannah MAY baptised on 16 October 1803 at St Mary, Kinsgclere. If, as seems highly probable, the Ann and Hannah of the 1851 census are the daughters of Stephen & Hannah MILES, and the Charles MAY in question is who I believe he was, then it looks like the latter Hannah must have been his daughter. An addtional clue is that Sarah Ann BRADLEY, a niece of Stephen MILES, married Daniel MAY, son of Charles & Ann MAY above. In the 1871 census, this Daniel has in household at Humber’s Marsh a ‘nephew’, Daniel MILLES [sic] aged 39 and born at Kingsclere Woodlands. I infer that this must be Daniel the son of Stephen and Hannah MILES, which then makes Daniel MAY Hannah's brother and reinforces the hypothesis as to her identity. QED, I think. Do others agree? Mike ___________________________________________________________ Want ideas for reducing your carbon footprint? Visit Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html