Hi again Yvonne Believe I've may have found the second wife, if not the third :- Marriages 1899 Wirral Civil Thomas DODD and Susannah SUMMERS (Cheshire BMD ref WOO/27/67) 1901 Census RG13/3421 folio 6 page 5 Royal Infirmary, Liverpool Susannah DODD, private patient, 44, LAN Rusholme Deaths 1902 Woodchurch Susannah DODD aged 46 (Cheshire BMD ref WOO/15/97) As regards the "ninth child" I have in my tree the same 8 as you have in your list viz from Alice Margaret b1880 to Harold Walter 1900, but in the 1901 Census:- RG13/3387 folio 51 page 34 28 Grove Road, Hoylake Thomas DODD, head, M, 48, fisherman, LAN Liverpool Daisy, daur, 22, S, domestic nurse, CHS Hoylake Arthur, son, 13, CHS Hoylake Wilhelmina, daur, 10, CHS Hoylake Nany, daur, 8, CHS Hoylake Harold Walter, son, 1, CHS Hoylake If ages are precise then 22 year-old Daisy would have been born prior to April 1879, whereas the Thomas DODD/Mary Jane SHERLOCK marriage wasn't until 25 April 1879 (in Hoylake Holy Trinity). Mary Jane had of course been previously married to a William Edward DACEY (1872 in Liverpool St Andrew) and I'm wondering if Thomas DODD had also been previously married, Daisy being a fruit of his first marriage? Alternatively, Daisy might have been a daughter of William & Mary Jane DACEY's whom Thomas DODD had taken under his wing and came to regard as one of his own children? Best Gordon From: "Yvonne Purdy" <von@yvonnepurdy.free-online.co.uk> To: <eng-merseyside@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 7:37 PM Subject: [ENG-MERSEYSIDE] Thomas DODD/Mary Jane SHERLOCK >Hi all, >I'm flogging on, trying to update details on Family Tree Maker Programme, >and have realised I've lost a fair bit of information on my DODD family >line >when my computer crashed last year. (I've learned, tho, and now use an >external memory stick to back up the file), but need to re-find my info. >I would welcome any additional details on this line. >Thomas Dodd (famous coxswain of the Hoylake Lifeboat), (my second >cousin 3 >removed), was born abt. 1857 in Liverpool, son of Peter Dodd and Alice >Hughes (married where and when?). Peter Dodd died very soon after >Thomas' >birth in an accident in Liverpool. >Alice Hughes was the daughter of Richard Hughes and Nancy (Anne) >Silcock. >Her sister Jane Silcock is my 3 x gt. grandmother. Richard Hughes is also >my 3 x gt. granduncle. (It's a close family!!) >Anyhow, my 2 x great aunt Mary Jane Sherlock married her second cousin >Thomas Dodd on 25 April 1879 in Holy Trinity, Hoylake, and had eight >children that I know of, all born Hoose/Hoylake, Wirral. >Alice Margaret Dodd ca 1880 >Evelyn E. Dodd ca 1882 >Henrietta Dodd ca 1886 >Martha Amy Dodd ca 1887 >Arthur T. Dodd ca 1888 >Wilhelmina Dodd ca 1890 >Nany Dodd ca 1893 >Harold Walter Dodd ca 1900 >I think that Mary Jane Dodd died about 1899, and Thomas Dodd re->married >twice more. There should be another child as he had nine in total. >I have a newspaper report of his death and funeral in 1916. >Any additional details would be appreciated, and it would be great to hear >from anyone researching/descended from this family. >Best regards, >Yvonne