I have now received Sarah's birth certificate which gives her parents as parents as Richard and Emma nee CRANE which means I'm not really any further forward. http://wp.me/p3nHph-1z This is one instance where the birth certificates are a necessity but may not actually help. I'm not even sure if the death certs for either or both of the Richards would help. The burials aren't on Ancestry as yet and FamilySearch only has the GRO index entries. Any suggestions how to sort this one out would be appreciated. The Ancestry trees don't help. The one person who might be able to hasn't responded to my message :( -- Connie http://oursalmons.wordpress.com/

have now received Sarah's birth certificate which gives her parents > as parents as Richard and Emma nee CRANE which means I'm not really > any further forward. > > http://wp.me/p3nHph-1z > > This is one instance where the birth certificates are a necessity but > may not actually help. I'm not even sure if the death certs for > either or both of the Richards would help. The burials aren't on > Ancestry as yet and FamilySearch only has the GRO index entries. > > Any suggestions how to sort this one out would be appreciated. perhaps EERHAPS rPerhaps he had got into debt as Richard, and this was the way he hoped to dodge any bills or writs. perhaps Richard had skipped and been replaced by a George (Bloggs) and Emma was passing him off as her husband. I rather favour the middle one. It was easy to run into debt as a tailor, since you had to give credit to customers, and if they then didn't pay up, -trouble. Just ppossibly the problem reached newspapers -try the online listing. > > The Ancestry trees don't help. I wouldn't trust someone else's Ancestry tree anyway - so many are cobbled together without first engaging brain. EVE Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society