I thought that I had discovered the family of my Great Great Uncle Charles' step daughter until another genealogist who was helping me in my search checked and found that the baby had died when she was ten days old - so it was back to the drawing board, a board which is irritatingly blank. She appears to have been the natural child of my Uncle Charles' wife and we now have her given names and an approximate birth year but she doesn't appear to have been registered at birth. This was common with babies born out of wedlock at that time and I usually found them by their death registrations. Very sad but a reality in the days when 'bastards' were something to be ashamed of and hidden. I suspect that many of them were allowed to quietly starve.
I have now spun 75% of the second skein of my Rosewood tops and it is a very full bobbin, although not bellied up. I hope that the other bobbin fills up as much or I will be overlapping skeins again as I had some singles left on one of the bobbins from the first skein.
My postal scales arrived yesterday so I may be able to divide the plaits more evenly in future.
I have bought Parsifal a new Blankie. It is a proper blankie, not a recycled dressing gown, and he loves it. Yesterday, after his morning smurgle he curled up on it and went to sleep. Bless his little black heart; he is gorgeous but very needy.
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