I have been nursing a cold for the last few days and have been sitting around not doing a great deal except some desultory spinning of plait 3 of my Rosewood tops.
But I was presented with an interesting puzzle: Who was the second daughter of the black sheep of the family, my wicked great great Uncle Charles. It transpired that she was a step daughter, a child of Uncle Charles' wife. All I had was a surname but google came up with enough information to give me her husbands given name. Google also gave me the information that the couple had paid a visit or two to England so I suspected that the husband might have been English and searched for a marriage there when I could find nothing in any of the Australian States.
A funeral notice with a presumed date of birth allowed me to use Digger to put in her given names and those of her mother. The first year, 1880, gave me nothing but 1881 gave me the birth registration with only the father's family name and the mother's first name and the initial of her second name. She was born about five years before Charles and his wife married.
I haven't had so much fun since a distant cousin and I searched out the much-married Davies family. Finding a particular Davies in Wales took a lot of searching and emails back and forth. I still haven't met him in person - he lives in Victoria and I am here in Western Australia.
Now I can get back to my knitting - still the beastly black corriedale - and spinning.
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