Thomas is found in 1881 b.1855 with his wife Susannah and son Charles. Prior to the new GRO index I had found a marriage to a Susannah RAINES with apparently no other possibilities so I was quite confident. However with the advent of the new GRO index I was able to check the mmn of Charles and there is none with a mmn of RAINES. There is one with KNIGHT and one with ELLEN. KNIGHT is, I think, accounted for by the marriage of Henry KEELER to Mary Ann KNIGHT, but I cannot explain ELLEN.
In case Susannah was previously married to a man called RAINES and had a maiden name of ELLEN I looked for a marriage of a Susannah ELLEN to a RAINES but could not find one.
So I am left with two (or maybe three) mysteries, which may have the same solution:
Who were the parents of Charles KEELER with a mmn of ELLEN, and
Who was the wife of Thomas and who, if different, was the mother of Charles?
In case Susannah was previously married to a man called RAINES and had a maiden name of ELLEN I looked for a marriage of a Susannah ELLEN to a RAINES but could not find one.
So I am left with two (or maybe three) mysteries, which may have the same solution:
Who were the parents of Charles KEELER with a mmn of ELLEN, and
Who was the wife of Thomas and who, if different, was the mother of Charles?
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