why you can't find that ancestor!

[Phoenix]

Looking for any references to the surname Touchett, I came across the following:

Bennett's Divorce, House of Lords, London, 1852

If the lady DID appear in any surviving records, I rckon she'd be difficult to find once on her travels.

[Olde Crone Holden]

Phoenix

Oooh, what wonderful stuff, just like a Georgette Heyer novel!

OC

[Jill on the A272]

One of the scenes of the episode is still there, though alas closed
About the Horsham Society

[Little Nell]

Shocked to hear that she alleged she was going to Hitchin (where I live). Interestingly, Effie Gray went to Hitchin Station when she was escaping from her unconsummated marriage to John Ruskin, before she married John Everett Millais.

[Phoenix]

I do wonder whether the husband was a complete brute and a bully. She went to such lengths to evade him. Curiously, the child drops out of the story.

[Merry Monty Montgomery]

I wonder how the husband managed to trace them in al those places with all those different names? He would have been an asset to this site!!

Here they are in 1841 (Not that I'm an addict or anything :()

HO107; Piece 353; Book: 2; Civil Parish: Kings Charlton; County: Gloucestershire; Enumeration District: 6; Folio: 37; Page: 17; Line: 5

living nextdoor to one of her relations!

[Olde Crone Holden]

What makes me gurgle about all this is "....where he received a lady". Not met, received, like she was a parcel.

Merry, if you were furtively dashing across continents disguised in a heavy velvet cloak and a veil and forgetting your name, they would remember you too!

But yes, there is something about it which suggests a put up job.

OC

[Uncle John]

From such as this was the News of the World born!

[Liz from Lancs]

Great stuff - thanks for posting it. Liz