Margaret,
Just a bit of info incase you dont have it:
I believe the AXHAMs were from Marston then were in Kempston [just a couple of miles away]...
Robert AXHOM of Marston Moretaine was enrolled in the County Militia in 1683..
Wm BENNETT, labourer, of Aspley Guise was seved with a bastary order for the child of Mary AXHAM [dated 1729].
Wayne Carter in Australia is researching the Kempston AXHAMs [Francis AXAM who arrived in Sydney in 1830] - you can reach him at:
flora.1@bigpond.com