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The Shalbourne family could well be the same - is there any other evidence locally to support the idea?  My son-in-lae's line is via Thomas 1755, Thomas 1786, Joseph 1817, James William 1863, Joseph James 1903 and finally Osmund Richard 1930.

Yes, I've followed all the OPC links.  Thanks for the tip

Can anyone help with information about Thomas Baker, born circa 1756, died Twyford Farm, Compton Abbas, Dorset; buried 2 March 1835?  He was a farmer. I think his wife's name was Ann.

Thanks for your response.  I'm afraid I always treat the IGI with great caution, and prefer to work with original records.  Consequently my info about Coopers comes from the original Baptism, Marriage and Burial registers for Kempston.  From these it seems clear that the Thomas Cooper buried in 1736 was in fact the fathwer of the Thomas buried in 1742.  The former is described as "Thomas Cooper Senr" with occupation noted as "Victuallar".  He, along with other members of the family line, is often referred to in the registers as "Cooper alias Farrer".  I'm really after getting back beyond this Thomas, but so far have had no success!  Any suggestions?  Neither can I find any hints as to why the family carried the "alias Farrer" tag.  Again, any help from anyone out there would be welcome.

Thus I think it is possible to reconstruct the family thus:-

Thomas Cooper Senr (alias Farrer) married Elizabeth (unknown), who died in 1736.  They had the following children:  Mary (b 1683); Elizabeth (b 1686); Sarah (b 1687- and assumed dead before 1694); John (b 1689- and assumed dead before 1697); Thomas (b 1690, and assumed died before 1692); Thomas b 1692- d 1742); Sarah (b 1694); John (b 1697- d 1700); Ann (b 1699- d 1699); William (b 1702- d 1703).

The Thomas Cooper born in 1692 married Mary (unknown), who died in 1744.  They had the following children:  John ("alias Farrer" b 1716- d 1782); Elizabeth (b 1717); Thomas (b 1724- d 1762); Jones (sic!)(b 1726- d 1731)

My branch of the family stems from the Thomas (1724-1762).  Hia son, another Thomas (1751-1801) was born in Houghton Conquest, as was, in turn, his son William (1779-1861).  The family then appears to have moved to Wilshampstead, where my gt-gt-grandfather and gt-grandfather were born.

There are lots of Coopers in Bedfordshire, aren't there?  All very confusing.  I don't suppose you have any leads on the Houghton Conquest or Wilstead lot do you?

Hi knesbitt
The pair we have in common are John M and Mary Alwood.  They had, three years after "your" John b 1748 was born, a son William (1751-1830).  He married Martha Marriott.  They had a son William who married Sarah Towe.  Their son Mark married Elizabeth Ann Wall.  Thie daughter Sarah Jane Millington was my grandmother.  So that makes me the same generation as your father!  All I know about your grandfather Frank is that he was born in Grantham in 1893.  I'd love any info you can give me about him, his marriage, his family and yourself.  Any chance of a copy of John Joseph's photo?  I copied the will in Nottinghamshire Records Office.  Do you subscribe to Genes Reunited?  If so there's all my tree there and I could open it up to you.  If not, if you let me have your email address I could GEDCOM it direct to you.