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…..
There once was a woman, a relative born in 1876.. Bella ( she was my great gran) who met Ernest born 1877. When they had had their children, one unfortunately had died, (the first son) and this had impacted the line of surviving women, further impacting Gerty ( my gran) by what she had received via umbilicus. And how it continued in succession down the line. How he ( Ernest ) went insane- allegedly and how she survived, keeping herself…..