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These are a few of the pics I took today at St Michael & St Felix, Rumburgh, which is a charming village in Suffolk, not far from Bungay.

I've just watched an episode of "Frasier" where the Crane brothers get the idea they're descended from the Romanov family and decide to research their family history.  They have a horrible family heirloom which is a bear with a clock in its stomach, which they find out is worth US$25,000.

They manage to contact an expert in Russian history who's connected to an important museum in Moscow, who visits them to see the clock.  He tells them the story of Princess Sonia, who fell in love with a commoner and enlisted the help of a scullery maid to smuggle out valuables to be sold so as to fund her new life with her lover, only to have the scullery maid abscond with all the valuables and the money.  The Crane brothers ask him "How did our great great grandmother get our clock back?" and he reveals "Your ancestor is not Princess Sonia - your ancestor is the scullery maid!"  And he takes the clock back (which they'd hoped to sell for lots of wonga!)

It was hilarious - and a perfect example of Doing Family History the Wrong Way Round.

I want to change my e-mail address on Rootschat, as the one registered is now old.  But I've forgotten my password AND the answer to the secret question.  Can anything be done?

My 3 x great grandmother Azubah Westley appears on the 1871 England census (as Annibale Westley but if you look at the image you can see it's Azubah) and on the 1881 census.  Both times she says she's a widow, born in 1828 in Gloucestershire. 

In 1881 her son George William Westley (my great great grandfather) aged 20, and her daughter Millicent aged 25 are living with her, along with William D Brookman, George A Cooper and Emily Vinson, all of whom I think are lodgers as she is a Lodging House Keeper.

In 1871 she had 20 year old Emily Westley living with her, as well as George and Millicent and LOTS of other people apparently in the same household, I'm not sure why.  (this is RG10 Piece 586, Folio 37 Page 17).

In 1861, 1851 and 1841 I can find no sign of her or the children.  I can't find the births of any of her children registered.  The census returns say they were all born in Finsbury, but I've searched all years between about 1849 to about 1852, then 1855 to 1858, then 1859 to 1862 for George.  It just looks as if Azubah didn't register the children's births. 

I did find Millicent living with her 7 year old son in 1901, and claiming to be a widow, but I am pretty sure her son was illegitimate and she was still a spinster.  As I can't find any trace of a husband for Azubah, I wonder if her husband was also non-existent. 

Azubah died in 1886, and in spite of her name being so unusual, I haven't been able to find a marriage of a Westley man to an Azubah. 

Does anyone have any ideas where I should go from here please?