I have three resaons for my interest in this name. (a). The first came about from doing research into my Cooper ancestors. I had been looking for possible ancestors for the Richard Cooper who married Judith Buxey at St. Mary on 14 Mary 1786 and thereby became my 5xgreat grandparents. Whilst there were Coopers in Kingclere back to the 1650s I could find no baptism for a Richard among these families but I did find a suitable Richard baptised in Woodcot on 14 Oct 1748. Tracing back in Woodcot registers the similarity between the names I found there and the Kingsclere Coopers lead me to believe they were the same family. And there were a couple of Woodcot Coopers marrying into a Kingsclere family Eventually a descendant of the Woodcot Coopers moved to Thatcham were he married and started having a family in Goose Hill, Woodlands, One of these children Alresford (or Olsford) was married on 15 October 1910, St. Paul, Woodlands, to Beatrice Eugenia Lovelock ca 1882 (witnesses: Arthur Cooper ca 1881, Lilian Kate Johnson). This couple lived at Headly originally in the Old Chapel then moved to a house at Mill Green, Common Road, Headly, their children married and mostly moved away from the area. Beatrice Eugenia was born in Woodlands and her ancestors were all Kingsclere or Hannington born. The earliest found so far being Francis Lovelock born about 1720 who married Ann Payne at St. Mary on 8 May 1743. Despite the very intensive information on the Lovelock Family website I have not yet found his place of birth or parents. (b). The second reason for my interest came about from reading Kingsclere Woodlands Story. KWS says Tom Lovelock occupied Scarlett's Farm for some time and later moved to Fairview where he lived until his death in 1942, he left the house to Margaret Ingram's mother (date of death in KWS must be wrong as he was buried in 1936) Plastow Green Village Hall was a gift to the community from Mr Lovelock. It was only when I started looking into the Lovelock family I realised the connection between the Lovelocks and the Fosters (Margaret's maiden name) Tom had married on 24 January 1874, St. Paul, Woodlands, Eliza Foster ca 1857-1921 and as a result became Margarets gt-grandparents. The only child I know about (once again they were Methodists so there may be others not recorded in the CofE registers) was Martha Ann Lovelock who married George Hill in June Qtr. 1898, in Newbury RD. The only one of their children I can be certain of is Lilian Elsie Hill who married Arthur Gordon Foster about 1900. Arthur's father was a cousin of Eliza (wife of Tom Lovelock) and a fourth cousin of my Grandfather. (c). The third reason for my interest in the Lovelock name is that I can trace my descent from a Martin Lovelock who with his wife Anne baptised 2 children in Swallowfield All Saints in 1696 and 1699, The eldest of these, Elizabeth was married on 18 October 1716, All Saints, Swallowfield, to Jonathon Lewington. a 2xgt-grandaughter Martha Lewington was married on 17 October 1835, Heckfield, to Charles Neville and their eldest daughter Eliza married Charles Barker on 14 September 1872 at Mattingley. Emma Rose Barker, their second daughter was to become my grandmother. Francis Cooper was her second husband and after Frank was killed on the Somme in July 1916 she married again and her third husband John Hart has links to another branch of the Lovelock family through his first marriage to Agnes Jane Occomore, A cousin of Agnes Jane has a direct link to Kingsclere with an illegitimate daughter being born in Union House and baptised at St. Mary What a tangled web our ancestors wove for us to un-tangle ;) My next family will be the Hills (see George Hill above), who came to Kingsclere from Wiltshire sometime in the late 1800s. -- John Lewis <jayellatntlworlddotcom> from Bournemouth, Dorset, UK. using Debian GNU/Linux and GeneWeb genealogy software