Get it right!

[Phoenix]

I knew from the family that Alice Turner married a Mr Coombes and I thought she had a daughter Dorothy.

Well, I found Frederick and Alice Coombes in Crofton, Hampshire, having children, found them on the 1911 census.

Dorothy was born in 1914, mmn Turner.

Looking today at the 1939 register, Alice was next door to her brother and sister, with Dorothy, now married, living with her. The other children had been older, of course.

Then I did a double take. Alice was married to William, not Frederick.....

Who would have thought that two brothers would both marry girls called Alice

What is really humiliating is that I have noted that Alice's husband is called William, and not noted that Alice was actually living, childless in 1911, with my grandma

It's a good job we only do this for fun