Get me the Lemsip: and skeleton update

It's finally got to me. Here I sit on a dull Tuesday afternoon with broken glass in my throat, lungs on fire and a tissue up each nostril to stem the flow. It's not a pleasant sensation or sight. Who gave it to me? Was it my OH, the children, my friends or my enemies? Because just about everyone I know has already had a cold this autumn.

Succumbing to a cold is a bit like childbirth - although considerably less painful. I mean that in between colds you forget how completely bloody miserable it is, only to remember in succinct and technicolour style when the virus strikes.

Anyway we have had an important update on the skeleton!

Trevor emailed me back to say that although he hadn't got the actual date for the newspaper clipping that he sent me last week - see previous post - but, he believed that it dated from 1907 (incredible: over one hundred years ago). At the time, Norah was still married to her first husband Charles Russell, who was not to leave her a widow for another two years.

So: one part of the puzzle is complete - Sidney Arthur was not unfaithful to his wife. But we still must determine how the case panned out.

Other side of the tree: I believe I have found more about Cyprian Shorter's wife, Mary Lloyd Jones, whose 1822 marriage can be found at the LDS site. She is listed in the 1951 and 1961 censuses as being born in Audley, Staffordshire in c.1797.

LDS gives a Mary Jones born in Audley in this year to an Alexander and Ann Jones. In the preceding ten years before 1797, LDS lists a 1790 marriage between an Alexander LLOYD Jones and an Anne Meredith. But in Bromfield in Shropshire, which is some 60 miles from Audley.

So - perhaps this is debatable. But then Audley is also some veritable distance - 40 miles - from Wolverhampton, where Cyprian and Mary certainly got married. So the next step on this branch of the tree is really to get the Audley church records which may be available from its History Society.

Aaaaaaaaaaaattchooooooo!!!!!