A chance browse on Freebmd looking for an aunts birth year(which I found) has sparked another mystery or 2 for me. an Ada Austen(no relation as far as I know) was born in Portsmouth in mid 1922. her mothers` maiden name was given as Funnell. By chance my grandmothers` oldest half brother, married a Funnell in the Whitechapel area of London in 1915 having spent much of his youth in Portsmouth. has anyone got any clues about how I could research the Funnell clan. Regards Joe Austen in a very sultry OZ