Hello again, Greensleeves.
You are quite right, it's haunted me for years; wondering who she was, why didn't her children have a father, why did she disappear and where to !
To put a little more flesh on the bones of the story; from her days at Westgate street, circa 1891, she is next found in Newark, Notts. where Constance's birth is registered in 1895. Three years later, Francis ( my GtUncle Frank) is born, apparently in Earsham. Three years later, on the 1901 census, the two children are down as boarders with the Bedwells. The next information I have is from Constance's marriage certificate dated 1 Sep 1919 : Father's name - Not known to her, adopted in infancy by Benjamin Bedwell.
I have quite a few postcards to Constance, my Grandmother, from her adoptive parents sent during the first war. Both she and her brother Frank seem to have had a loving upbringing with the Bedwells in Earsham. Indeed during the second world war, Constance's daughter (my mother) was evacuated to live with 'Grandma' Bedwell.
Boy do I regret not having pressed for answers while people with the knowledge were still with us. But howmany times has that been said...
One way or t'other, the truth Will out.
Regards, David.
ps; I will try to attach a photo of the two children with their adoptive mother taken during WW1. Hope it works !