I am working on the Blackshaw/Dayball line from Lincolnshire, England, and have come up with a puzzle I need some advice on. Joseph Blackshaw 1831, assistant postmaster and storekeeper in Berdan, IL, married 1) Rebecca Dayball 1828/29 in 1854 in Missouri and 2) Mary Meredith Strain 1843, in 1873 prob. Greene or Macoupin Co.. We have always assumed that Rebecca had died previous to the second marriage. We have no found Rebecca with her children in the 1870 St. Louis census. Her daughter Sarah Victoria is boarding at a school for the deaf in Fulton, MO. In the 1890 city directory for St. Louis she is listed as living with her son, William, also deaf. Joseph, also known as One-armed Joe, died in 1899 in Macoupin Co. Where would one search for divorce papers, for example, in this instance? The daughter of the first marriage, Sarah Victoria, who never married, lived with her half-brothers and sisters from the first marriage later in life, so there doesn't appear to be any animosity, but rather some type of amicable resolution. We have photos of her taken with these folks during her maturity. Thanks, Jerry in Boise