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Have you considered contacting the Sheffield Indexers? They have quite a lot of records available and have been very helpful to me in the past.

http://www.sheffieldindexers.com/

Not promising anything but sent this to a friend who did Latin at school - you never know!

This is it, I too am clutching at straws! I thought perhaps she wasn't registered at all as she belonged to one of the elder girls and not Georgiana and Francis. It is possible that the younger Francis was the father but at his age I doubt it, would it not have been more likely if it were one of the boys that the child would stay with its mothers side? I can find no sign of Francis William after the 81 either.

Who knows? If the mother died, was young or perhaps was living in poorer circumstances than the Thornes it is possible that they came to an arrangement to bring her up as they may have wanted her to have a better start in life (maybe an option was the workhouse?)

In my experience I have often found it beneficial to leave a puzzle like this and concentrate elsewhere for a while, say looking at the wider tree of the other sisters or the parents siblings. Often it has accidentally produced evidence that I was looking for. For instance, in the 1901 census a child appeared living with my Ggrandparents. It turned out she was my great grandmother's niece. Her sister had an illegitimate child who later married and had three children. Husband died and left her destitute and the daughter was adopted and brought up by my Ggrandparents. Researching her background eventually brought me to a lost relative further back up the tree - who had been admitted to an asylum miles away in another part of the country after the birth of a child (I guess it was just post natal depression). I was amazed - my lost relative just "turned up" when I wasn't even looking for her.

I feel for you - I really do - it is so annoying when you can't piece together the bits of a puzzle. In most cases problems like this occur in the 18th century when records were more scarce, but for it to occur in an era when documents are more readily available is extremely frustrating.

Good luck - if any of us come up with any ideas we will let you know!

I've got a bit confused now!  Am I right in thinking that Amelia was originally Frances, and died in Holloway Prison in 1903? If so it is just Eunice we are looking for.

Does Eunice have any other names - could she also have had Eunice as her middle name and been baptised with a different one?

Also, when Eunice changed her name on her marriage certificate in 1930, did she also change her father's name and occupation or did they remain the same?

Oooh oooh oooh! My Thorne family come from Dorset too - Marston Magna area. I wonder if there is a connection?

ETA - just looked at the distance between Hampreston and Marston Magna - 1 hour 11 minutes - so unlikely to be a connection I should think.