Hi, I have posted about my great grandmother Mary Ann Hirst before but thought I'd have another go. She was born on the 19th June 1856 and was the eldest child of John Hirst and Sarah Ann Slane. She married my great grandfather Thomas Gornall in 1873 at St Mary's Catholic Cathedral in Newcastle. Thomas Gornall had recently moved up north from Berriew in Montgomeryshire. They had 7 children-the 4 eldest were born in Pudding Chare Newcastle and the 3 younger were born at Snows Green near Shotley Bridge. Thomas Gornall died in 1890 aged 38 and by 1901 Mary Ann had moved back to Newcastle.. She was then living in Grey Street next door to her sister Sarah Hirst who had married William Walton in 1878. William and Sarah Walton had 9 children-one of whom was named Thomas Gornall Walton in memoery of his uncle. Sarah died not long after the 1901 census and in 1907 her husband William Walton married my great grandmother Mary Ann Gornall. The marriage happened only months after the law chaged allowing such a union. THere weren't any children from the second marriage.. What I would like to know is what then happened to my great grandmother as there is no family knowledge of her. I'm guessing that she lived the rest of her life in Newcastle but I don't know when she died as there are so many Sarah Waltons... She appears to have still been alive in 1914 when her yougest daughter Sophia Gornall married John C Lawton as she is mentioned in that couple's marriage notice.. Any contact with her first or second family would be most welcome.. Yours John Ayton