[Nell]

Merry

Losing the plot is part of being a family historian. But I'm a little surprised you forgot all about this as its so dramatic and tragic. I often find I've already got details of a marriage or that the witnesses are people in my tree already but I hadn't clocked it.

Now I've found the right gt gt grandmother for my ex, I'm appalled at how I was led up the wrong branch of the tree on the basis of her brother's entry in 1881 census. In fact it wasn't her brother, it just said lodger, as KiteRunner pointed out. I'd assumed because his surname was the same as her maiden name, and they'd both been born in Long Acre, that they were siblings.