My most elusive ancestor is my maternal grandfather. He was a stonemason like his father, swimming champion of Staffordshire in 1910/11 and a bit of a rogue. He thought he killed a gamekeeper one evening and quietly disappeared for a year or so. The family were always on the move to escape the landlord or debt. I hunted for his marriage lines for years since my mother was baptised Hilda Clara MOORLEY the daughter of Sarah MORRIS now the wife of Harry MOORLEY. I should have known better after all these years to read these things more carefully. When I did find the marriage it had occurred on the very day my mothers birth was registered - a neat bit of tidying up. Go to the Registrar, get birth registered and get married all at the same time! Harry went to work on the War Memorial at Broadstone nr Poole one morning in 1927/8 and was never seen again! The one doubt I now have regarding my Grandfather is whether he really is my mothers father or was he the guy my grandmother managed to convince was the father of her child? Mike Waterlooville