Cathy > Just a hunch, but Ann Russell was one of the witnesses at Ann Knibbs and > George Brashier's wedding in 1856. I had been thinking it could be a friend > or relative of similar age -- but thinking about Ann Knibbs age 44 in 1851 > and then disappearing -- and having Alan say that perhaps she married > again -- might she have married a Russell? > > One way of checking would be for someone to look at the GRO indices for 03qtr1856 to see if there's a RUSSELL entry there with the same reference. However, it does seem strange for both an Ann and an Anne KNIBBS to have married in the same quarter and in the same district with the same reference. Perhaps it is in reality a duplicate entry for your Ann. I did just wonder if the Anne KNIBBS, pauper charwoman in Lambeth was Ann WHITE, the second wife of John who was your Ann's father. She is shown as a charwoman on the 1881 census at Woodstock by which time John had died - 1872 if the right one. That also has me thinking whether a saddler's widow would have been so described. Oh that we could become time travellers! bfn Alan