Another six weeks or so have passed and things are changing. My father is in hospital after getting an infection of some sort which has seemed to have rendered him unable to walk any more - he already had Alzheimers which has also been accelerated by his infection so now he is having trouble speaking too. He's been in almost five weeks now, and doesn't look likely to be out any time soon.
Mind you, I've been busy online scouring through the census information looking for clues. We had been under the impression that Gt Granny was related to a family living in Gt Oxendon (Leicester/Northants border) in 1881 as she was recorded as the grand-daughter in the census then. Have been looking and looking for the record of her in the 1871 census.
Mum and myself were looking through a family tree that my cousin had completed when we noticed he had recorded the date of the marriage to Mary (2nd wife we know now) as 1878, whereas we already knew Frances was born around 1868 so this got us wondering if her dad had been married before.
Mum had previously found a reference to an Annie "Tyrle" who'd died in 1877 in Little Bowden - where James Tearle lived, and we put two and two together and I started searching for her.
Bingo! Found both her and James Tearle in the 1871 census - he was aboard a training ship - HMS Bosecawan out of Portland, Dorset, and Annie was living in Fortunewell which is a district of the Portland area - along with Francis (Frances - daughter) and Minie, her younger sister.
This shows Frances and her mother Annie as being from Northumberland, though it's very difficult to read the town or city location.
Watch this space!
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