JONQUIL! while I have been wasting time sleeping you have been finding what I wanted to find..... thank you so much. No mention of family. hmmmmm.
Marriage cert for George/ Eugenie states George was a seaman. Death cert for that George Brown says he was just a lead worker. I thought... well, he may have given up the sea. Its reasonable. However when I received the death cert on Thursday, something didn't seem right about it. It didn't fit - not sure why. There are a couple of possibilities: yes, this is the George and Eugenie has already left him, or vice versa (and she did have her 4 - sorry, only 4 - children by James Robbins with her). Or no, this was never the right George Brown and the real one is yet to be discovered. There is another possible death for a George Brown in the area George Eli Brown -but I am not sure). Or George Brown could have gone back to sea.
Yes, Alfred is the surviving son of William Cracknell's former marriage. I am fond of William too.... a scene painter/artist, quite itinerant, maybe did sign painting or even portraits? Alfred seems to have been an artist too (when not in the lunatic asylum). What is even more interesting is that I found James Robbins as a boarder in the tenement house Eugenie was living in with her 'new' husband George Day. Perhaps he was looking after their children.
Additional addresses for Eugenie I have from school registrations for the children and who knows? more may turn up for that fateful period between Jul 1887 and 1890 when Eugenie at last married a keeper - the bachelor George Day who outlived her. I may yet find out what happened to George Brown. Incidentally Eugenie's father, Mark James Jarvis also had bigamous marriages, as did her elder sister Ruth Elizabeth. Must run in the family (I hasten to add that this trend wore out before my generation! )
