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« on: Friday 02 October 15 03:10 BST (UK) »
Wilbs and sarah, I realize that this is a thread from the long lost past, but I believe that Elizabeth Augusta STODDART is my maternal great-great-aunt, whom my mother always referred to as "Nan".
Certainly my mother's characterization of her lives up to the facts as we know them; Nan was the matriarch who lived in a big house up the hill, ruled her family with an iron rod, drove her carriage and horses by herself, etc. I have a lot of stories about her that my mother regaled me with.
My question is this. Her second marriage was to a John Green with whom she had two children and they are listed as living in at Copperas Hill in the 1911 census. But what happened to John then. Several ancestry.com trees have him dying in 1918 in a Liverpool workhouse. I don't see him going from riches to rags in seven years but there are so many other John Greens I don't know how to winnow out Nan's real one.
Any help would be appreciated…
Philip
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