On Thu, 8 Feb 2001 12:59:43 -0000 "Chris and Caroline" <chris@chayles.freeserve.co.uk> wrote: > Hi everybody, especially those 'rebels' who have just joined with us. As another of the HantsRebels I too would like to mention my interests. From Kingsclere, Hants but with 'emigrants' to Berkshire and Surrey. COOPER (my Grandfther's surname) with special reference to any FOSTER links as due to one of those odd quirks we get in families, involving out of wedlock births, the Cooper Family name should have been Foster. I would love to find links to any Coopers living in Kingsclere area prior to the marriage of Richard Cooper and Judith BUXEY in 1786 FISHER, (my gt-grandmother's surname) The Cooper marriages include BUCKLAND, BUTLER, BUXEY, FROUD, GIRDLER, HAWKINS, JEWEL, SIMS and STINCHCOMBE to mention but a few. I think all the Kingsclere/Kingsclere Woodlands families are inter-related My particular branch of the Coopers seem to have been in Ashford Hill for quite a few generations, but several ended up in Ecchinswell working for the Kingsmill Estate. A Girdler marriage took us over to Highclere where that branch are still farmers and from that family came the most recent marriage to a Butler, a gamekeeper at Yattenden for many years. I would also like to track down any children of the Cooper Uncles who moved to Farnborough and Epsom. To end this long screed I have to include my grandmother's family name of BARKER, there are many Barker families around Hazely Heath, Heckfield, Crondal, Mattingley area of Hampshire. but finding a link between them to see if they are all the same family is my next aim. -- John Lewis <jayell@cwcom.net> from Bournemouth, Dorset, UK using Mandrake 7.2 GNU/Linux and Geneweb genealogy software Main Family Names in HAM are: Kingsclere area: BUTLER, COOPER, FISHER, FOSTER Hazeley Heath: BARKER