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Thanks for the help, both.

I'm slightly confused by the Lincs to the Past site, as if I search for Saltonstall across the whole site I get two marriage register hits in Alford, but going through the first (1754-67) page by page doesn't yield any Saltonstalls. The second is rather too late for my current purposes and is much longer, and I haven't had time to go through it yet!

As to the marriage licence, yes - I'd seen that transcript on FindMyPast but it doesn't add anything new unfortunately - in particular the bride's father is missing.

It is entirely possible that Elizabeth was born somewhere other than Alford, but in that case I have no pointers whatsoever as to where. The Saltonstall "hotspots" appear to be near Halifax and in Boston, Mass. None of my East Anglian/Fenland ancestors have any connections to either as far as I know.

One other thing - ages ago I was in touch with Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Alford because I had read somewhere a suggestion that Elizabeth was the daughter of a schoolmaster. QEGS confirmed that there was indeed a headmaster at the school called Thomas Saltonstall in the 18th century but didn't have any more precise information. This does at least place some Saltonstalls in Alford, but hasn't got me so much further.

Hi Genemum,

It's ages since I've been on here... But yes, I think I probably can help. I have dates of birth and death for four of the five children of Cordelia and Henry (no death date for the youngest - but more info has become available since I last looked at this part of my tree). Two of them that I know of had children themselves.

In summary the kids are:

Lucy Ellison Golding 1854-1930, married Alfred Clay Abraham and had 5 children
Emily Golding 1856-1868
Harriet Randles Golding 1858-1936 died unmarried
Alice Hurry Golding 1860-1937 married Charles Edward Potts Antram and had one child, Herbert, who was killed in action in WW1
Herbert Richard Golding b1864 - the last record I have is in 1881, but I feel there must be more out there. Will have a dig and add anything I find.

I will send you a personal message with my email address. If you reply with yours I can send you the info that I've got.

Thanks to conner395 for drawing my attention to this thread...

Someone a few posts up mentioned the war grave of J.A.G. Cameron, along with his parents Margaret and Alexander. M & A are my great-grandparents and I can confirm that Isabella and Margaret are sisters.

I don't have any definitive evidence for Isabella's whereabouts in the UK after the 1911 census, but Margaret lived at 78 Grange Loan, Edinburgh for a long time. Alexander died there in 1920 in his 50s and as far as I know they were there from their return from their last international posting. This may have been in 1916; I have Alexander's passport from that year showing his progress from Cape Town, zigzagging up the Atlantic to avoid the U boats. In any case, both Alexander and Margaret died at 78 GL, she in 1954.

This is speculation, but it could be that they rented the property from Isabella, who had no immediate use for it while in Italy.

As to Isabella, the information I have on her after 1911 comes from my dad's cousin, another grandchild of Alexander and Margaret. After serving as a nurse in WW1 she ran a pensione in Genoa until being interned as an enemy alien in 1940. After WW2 she again ran, or at least lived in, a pensione, but I'm not sure where. The place name my dad's cousin gave is Rapella, but I can't find anywhere convincing with this name. It may have been the name of the pensione itself, long since disappeared.

I don't have any record of her death and presume she died in Italy.

Hi Lainie

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