From: "Philip Maddocks" <listenat@talktalk.net> > The pressing time to remarry was when her son Thomas was small. There are > options but not in Farnham. Strange she married in Hammersmith. Thomas > had > left home before the next census. > > Did the Death Certificate for Charles give you an address ? (clutching at > straws) > I will keep a look out for you and if anything else springs to mind will > of > course let you know Many thanks Philip. Mary definitely hadn't remarried by 1851 by which time her son was in London and later Essex, where he stayed the rest of his life. The husband Charles died in Farnham where he is buried in the churchyard. Hammersmith is not really so far straight up the road from Farnham. Having lived near Farnham myself, as a teenager I used to go up to Hammersmith Palais just for a Saturday night out. I've found quite a few Farnham folk up in that neck of the woods in early to mid 1800s and one of mine from Godalming has been found up in Islington in the mid 1700s. People seem to have travelled quite extensively despite the very different transport (or lack of). I think this is very often the reason that lines of research come to an abrupt halt in small villages and towns - sometimes the wanderer comes back again later, and sometimes not. Ann