Thanks everyone for your replies .Yes maybe as you say she didn't have good recollections about marriage. Looks as if her Mother made up for it though. She didn't skint on the marriages? Think perhaps as you say Dianah was brought in to look after young children and stayed. She was maybe in service at Broughton Hall at the same time as Joseph originally and when Caroline died she moved in! There were three children who were only 7,5,3and a new baby, just born when Caroline died probably as a result of childbirth. I know Diana was well thought of by the Dearham family who owned Broughton as she is mentioned as being left in charge of the house in his book" Diary of an English Country Gentleman", when he took all his employees on their annual trip to Malvern. Quite strange that they both died on the same day in Feb 1924 .I know that my Grandfather had problems sorting out their Wills ,but Dianah was the last to die and so it is her Will I have the copy of and she left quite a little nest egg. How as a Laundress I don't know as Joseph was quite a bit older than her and was shown as a pauper on the last census. Perhaps the visitors to the house left good tips?!!!
