Hi List, According to my Husbands grandmother, Hannah Cox nee Wildsmith born 1912 Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, his 2 x great grandmother was one of the famous James sisters from London. Perhaps one of those stories that won’t be proved but going on what I have which is very little, I have to believe this for the time being. My husbands 2 x great grandmother was call Lottie James born about 1854 Middlesex, London according to the 1881 census when she was working as a butchers clerk, in Birmingham, Warwickshire. Lottie married Albert Bayliss on 13th October 1884 at Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire at this time she gives her age as 26, probably because Albert was age 22, the marriage certificate she doesn’t name her father. Another family story about her is that she was disinherited because she married a butcher (he was not in her class) Albert Bayliss was a Master Butcher. On the 1891 and 1901 census, she gives her age as 31 and 41 in 1901 Lottie adds more information and she says that she was born in Paddington, London. Lottie and Peter Bayliss had the following children Ethel Hildegard BAYLISS, born 1885 Birmingham, Warwickshire. Ethel married George Arthur COX, born 1884 Birmingham, Warwickshire in 1907, they had one son Arthur Cox born 1912, Birmingham Warwickshire. Arthur married Hannah Wildsmith above. Walter Stanley BAYLISS born 1889 Edgbaston, Birmingham, Warwickshire, died in 1916 he was a Lance Corporal in the 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry and died at the battle of the Somme. I have searched for Lottie on the census returns for 1861 and 1871 I have been unable to find her, with each variant I can think of. Anyone who also knows anything about the famous James sisters from London or can place Lottie James born 1854, I am taking the age she gives in 1881 as her true age because she had not reason to say otherwise, I would really like to hear from you. Lynne