In a message dated 29/01/2008 14:30:12 GMT Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Apparently she was the step sister of my grandfather Thomas Stanley Fairless. _______________________________________________________________________ A Thomas Fairless married an Eleanor Thompson in Sunderland in 1883, and Thomas Fairless married Frances Mary Ullithorne in March ¼ 1889 in Tynemouth. I wonder if Madame De Rose was a child of the first marriage? The birth of Thomas Stanley Fairless was registered in Sunderland March ¼ 1890. Stan