Hi, I would love to find more details about the life of Clara ELLIOTT. She was born around 1867/8 in Cape Coast Castle (Africa) the daughter of Samuel ELLIOTT and Sophia Martha GIBSON. Samuel was a soldier with the 32nd Regiment and this was his second marriage and his wife was a minor at the time of their marriage in 1862 in Devon. I have found this about him - The National Archives of Kew Original page number: 122 Samuel ELLIOTT; Rank: Coastguard; Born: [Not Given]; Age on entry: 21; Dates served: 9 December 1836 - 31 December 1866; Date and Type of Application: Whitehall 19 December 1866 Sophia was the daughter of Thomas GIBSON and Isabella CARRUTHERS, a quartermaster with the Royal Artillery. Clara was in the 1871, 1881 census in Kent with her grandfather and his second wife (Ann Jane SUDWEEKS). Her grandfather was deceased by 1891 and her step grandmother was in the Woolwich Arsenal and nurse. In 1891 she is in St Cuthbert and a housemaid. I have not found a death for either of her parents but I do have a possible sighting of her mother in the 1881 census married to a John LOMBARDO. None of them appear to be in England for the 1861 census and I have not located Sophia or Samuel in the 1871 census. Is anyone researching Clara ELLIOTT? Thank you Regards, Pat Wade (Nee King) Melb, Vic