Hi, Today, after many years I have finally found one of the 'missing' links. However it has posed more questions than it has answered and I am hoping someone on the list may have the answer - maybe Eve - I can live in hope. Please excuse the length of tale but it tells the story All the information listed below comes from Rootsweb, Ancestry, birth or death certificate, workhouse records,so most can be backed by 'official' documents. The only guesswork bits, family stories, are a couple of the dates around 1930 and Ella ending up institutionalised. First the details, then the problem Susan Annie Jane Garrett born Lidlington March 1900 Alfred Joseph Craft born Bedford Sept 1/4 1901 Ella May Gentel born Bedford March 1/4 1905 Susan Annie Jane Garrett married Claude Charles Underwood on 27 November 1920 in Luton (never divorced). My grandparents Susan and Claude had 5 boys Alfred Joseph Craft married Ella May Gentel Bedford Dec 1/4 1828 Alfred and Ella had a son Harry born Biggleswade June 1/4 1930 Story goes that for some reason Ella ended up in a mental hospital when her son/because her son was taken away Susan and the boys were in the Bedford workhouse in 1930 for a while 1930/1931 Susan and Claude split, he apparently goes to London with new 'wife', he is killed in 1939. 1931ish Susan moves in with Alfred and changes name to Craft, they have 4 daughters and Harry is raised with this family. He joins the RAF 7.7.1948 and serves in Singapore. After Susan moves in her 3 youngest kids are 'moved out'. The baby to its grandparents and the other two (age 3 and 5) are taken to Dr Barnardo's and handed over as unwanted, one is shipped to Australia, the other was supposed to go to Canada but was sick the day the boat left. One assumes Ella May is still institutionalised. Now we jump to 1968. Susan, still with Alfred, dies in Bedford General Hospital - age 68. I have had her death certificate for several years now, but could never figure out, nor could dad (one of the Barnardo Boys) why she was known by a whole new christian name. Death certificate says Susan Annie Craft other wise Ella May Craft - here in lies the problem. If Ella May Craft (nee Gentle) was Alfred's first wife, and Susan Annie his second, why are both names on the same death certificate. I am still trying to find Ella's death. The informatant was Alfred Craft who was a Fitters Mate at the Air Ministry, which I assume was Cardington RAF Base near Bedford. So one assumes as he was still working he wasn't senile so knew who he was married to. Also, can anyone tell me what institution Ella May may have been put in and would records exist please? Were the Bedfordshire Gentle's connected to the Nottingham Gentle's does anyone know please? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Have a good day. Sue in Australia