I came across an oddity whilst looking through HUGHES entries in the Kingsclere registers. The 1851 census index for Ecchinswell lists a Charles Hughes age 41 born Thatcham with wife Mary age 40 born Newtown and children William, Elizabeth, Harriet, Stephen and Hannah, all born Ecchinswell When I found the baptism entry for William on 20 Nov 1831 parents were recorded as Charles Watts & Mary Hughes. I decided to see if there was a marriage entry around this time for this couple and found Charles WATTS married Mary WHITE on 15 Aug 1831, both of Ecchinswell. It seems probable these are the parents of William. Charles Watts has become Charles Watts Hughes by November that year!! I suspect Charles may have been illegitimate with parents Watts & Hughes but don't have access to Thatcham registers to check this. My reason for looking at Hughes was an email to me from Peter Goff giving me information he'd received on the Neate family who's burials are recorded in the St. Mary MIs. The link to Hughes being that a John Drake married Jane Hughes in 1800, had a son John who married Ann Bayspole about 1829, who in turn had a daughter Helen who married Stephen Richard Neate. Both Stephen & Helen died in Hong Kong ca 1883/4 according to the MI inscription. Stephens parents were buried at St. Mary, Kingsclere. The Hughes family also link into my earlier email concerning Ada Dry as the wife of David Dry and John Hutchins was baptised Harriet Huse, the only dau of Charles Huse/Hughes & Jane Holness. -- John Lewis <jayellatntlworlddotcom> from Bournemouth, Dorset, UK. using Debian GNU/Linux and GeneWeb genealogy software