Continuing in the same vein as my previous post…about my late great gran Bella, and her much troubled life around 1900 in Brighton in the UK. I had been studying her life in depth using ancestry.com Bella had become lost, she was the black sheep of her family, this is easy to see as the census gives it away. All her siblings were either workers or scholars and in the column it said so, not her, she had nothing next…..
It’s a few years now since I got into genealogy, spending hour upon hour investigating my ancestral line and seeing who died of what and when. Each ancestors birth details would be inputted into my astrological software and I would make notes of things like when they were admitted to the workhouse or the asylum. I jest not, when you start out on this journey you look for news of longevity and many healthy children. What you find – in…..