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.........intelligent or otherwise!!
I will withhold my own thoughts, and see if anybody comes up with something to match, or indeed, entirely different.
I am still researching a particularly tricky line for my brother in law - it's tricky in that there are many illegitimacies and strange goings on. Please read on and tell me what conclusions you come to, if any.
Georgiana was one of two illegitimate girls, and both of them were given the middle name of Percival which might have been the name of their father but I will never know. She married a man, who whilst not a toy boy was certainly much younger than she was, and they appeared to produce four children. The first one was born in 1869, five years after the marriage, and was given a rather odd extra middle name of Angelo. The "0" is very clear on birth cert etc. so it is not Angela gone wrong. The last of the four children was born in 1883.
The thing is, Georgiana and her husband never lived together at the time of any of the censuses, and in every single instance he is living with his unmarried sister in Darlington whilst Georgiana flits around between her mother and other addresses out in the country some distance away, finally ending up with her son. In 1901 she claims that she is a widow, but her husband is still very much alive (and STILL with his sister) and in fact he eventually outlives Georgiana.
I will withhold my own thoughts, and see if anybody comes up with something to match, or indeed, entirely different.
I am still researching a particularly tricky line for my brother in law - it's tricky in that there are many illegitimacies and strange goings on. Please read on and tell me what conclusions you come to, if any.
Georgiana was one of two illegitimate girls, and both of them were given the middle name of Percival which might have been the name of their father but I will never know. She married a man, who whilst not a toy boy was certainly much younger than she was, and they appeared to produce four children. The first one was born in 1869, five years after the marriage, and was given a rather odd extra middle name of Angelo. The "0" is very clear on birth cert etc. so it is not Angela gone wrong. The last of the four children was born in 1883.
The thing is, Georgiana and her husband never lived together at the time of any of the censuses, and in every single instance he is living with his unmarried sister in Darlington whilst Georgiana flits around between her mother and other addresses out in the country some distance away, finally ending up with her son. In 1901 she claims that she is a widow, but her husband is still very much alive (and STILL with his sister) and in fact he eventually outlives Georgiana.
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